Retain italics & bold using paragraph styles

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January 27, 2012
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InDesign CS5 - Mac OS 10.6.8

Is there a way to keep the bold and italic words when importing text and selecting paragraph styles? Working on a book with about one italicized word per paragraph. Please tell me there's a way to format the text using paragraph styles and not loose all the italics.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

The italics and bold etc. don't have a character style - that's why when you apply the paragraph style it overrides the italics that are hand set.

To apply character styles throughout your text run this script - http://www.jongware.com/binaries/preptext.zip

Download the zip file - unzip it. Then copy the .jsx file to your scripts folder.

http://indesignsecrets.com/how-to-install-scripts-in-indesign.php

Place your cursor at the start of the text and double click the script.

It will pick out any formatting that requires a character style, creates the style and applies it.

Then you can apply paragraph styles without overriding the hand set italics etc.

rigoliartsAuthor

Inspiring

Eugene,

Does this method work with the font foundry's italics or only the applied style italics which aren't true italics, but only slanted versions of the roman font.

Thanks,

Diane

Peter Spier

Community Expert

ID doesn't "do" fake italics unless you specifically apply a slope to the text. When you create an italic style you specify that you want to use the italic style of the current face, if such exists. In the case of text where fuax italics are used inthe imported text, jongware's script will eihter fail, because he didn't think to add that possibility, or a style for fake italics will also be created.

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