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Making Individual Words Italic in Index

Community Beginner ,
Feb 03, 2017 Feb 03, 2017

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I have a huge index that has italic words through out it. 

The problem is that the italics doesn't carry through into the markers.

I have tried setting up a GREP but can't get it to recognize the italics.

Here's a sample of what I need in italics:

academic supervisor

attitude is </i>strong interest</i> in student progress, 153

definition, 16

description of functions and duties, 153

As you can see I have put <i> and </i> before and after the word, and the "hidden" character style makes these symbols small again but somehow the italics doesn't find its way to the words.

Any ideas, successful tips?

Thank you!

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LEGEND , Feb 03, 2017 Feb 03, 2017

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Feb 03, 2017 Feb 03, 2017

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Capture d’écran 2017-02-03 à 21.45.27.png

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Community Expert ,
Feb 03, 2017 Feb 03, 2017

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</i>strong interest</i> looks strange, <i>strong interest</i> would be the expected format.

Then you need to set up a GREP style in the index paragraph styles that applies an Italics character style to

<i>.+?</i>

Peter

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LEGEND ,
Feb 03, 2017 Feb 03, 2017

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Hi Peter,

Oups! Error from me!

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 03, 2017 Feb 03, 2017

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Dear Peter,

Thank you so much for your assistance.

I believe that I have it set up correctly.

But I can't seem to get it to work:

Do you possibly see what I have wrong?  I keep looking for the error but can't find it.

Thank you for your help!

Irene

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Community Expert ,
Feb 04, 2017 Feb 04, 2017

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Both variants (by pkahrel and Obi-wan Kenobi​) working well.

irenes96057146 Are you sure, that your italic character style is defined correctly?

Or can you upload an IDML file (only with one textfield and your character and paragraph styles)

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Feb 04, 2017 Feb 04, 2017

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All looks set up correctly, Irene. As pixxxel suggested, check that italics is enabled in the italic character style.

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LEGEND ,
Feb 04, 2017 Feb 04, 2017

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Just for comment:

Once, a guy posted a similar question about "superscript"! …

All seemed correct! Really! … As here!

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His problem came from the fact he copied the grep code from somewhere … with the hard-return behind, not visible!

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Community Beginner ,
Feb 13, 2017 Feb 13, 2017

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Thank you all for your help! I got it to work, so I am very happy right now!

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Aug 14, 2021 Aug 14, 2021

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Still not working for me. Help please.

Ginger

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Community Beginner ,
Jan 18, 2022 Jan 18, 2022

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There are two styles shown in examples here including one hidden/invisible. How do you you create a hidden or invisible style?

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Community Expert ,
Jan 18, 2022 Jan 18, 2022

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Heather, I explained how to set up Invisible/Hidden on your original thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-indexing-driving-me-crazy/m-p/12688874

 

~Barb

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