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abgraham
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October 10, 2019
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Line break in paragraph styles

  • October 10, 2019
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Hi,

 

I'm importing XML to InDesign and using character/table/paragraph styles to format mapped to the XML tags. Is there any way to insert a line break/carriage return/soft return into a paragraph style? I.e. for every instance of the XML tag there will be a line break inserted?

 

I'm familiar with the reasons to not use forced line breaks, I'm just hoping to learn about the above problem. Thanks!

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Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
Bevi Chagnon - PubCom.com
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October 10, 2019

abgraham wrote: "line break/carriage return/soft return into a paragraph style? "

 

Paragraph styles can only format content that already is in the text frame. They can't add content like a return, forced line break within a paragraph (aka, a Shift + Return), or any glyphs (alpha numerics, punctuation, symbols, etc.)

 

Only 3 ways I know of that can add content:

  1. Use InDesign's Find/Edit utility to search for some known character and insert the return or line break within the paragraph.
  2. Have the hard paragraph return or line break within a paragraph inserted at the time your XML file is created and before it's brought into InDesign.
  3. Run a transform script on the XML file to find ABC and add in the return.
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