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Hi @Bedazzled532, I have written a script that may help you. Let me know what you think. For instructions, read the script documentation below.
Note that it doesn't change "word spacing" per se, because that is a property of a *paragraph*, so instead this script targets the first space after a word boundary and sets its tracking value. To ensure that things don't get too messy, the script will set every word space to the same amount each time you click one of the buttons. I think this will wor
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Hi @Bedazzled532 I will update the script above with some extra buttons and also some improvements, such as better handling of Undo.
- Mark
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You want to align the "marker" on the line (white) on the "marker" on the line above (green).
As you only play with a space kerning [see Mark's script], how do you play if you have, e.g., on the line 4 spaces before the marker and 4 spaces after. Modifying the kerning will have no effect unless the last word of the line jumps to the next line or unless the first word of the following line comes on the current line …
By @FRIdNGE
You are presuming that you will adjust the spacing the same on both sides of the marker. I don't think that is necessarily true, particularly with fully justified text, as this seems to be.
I can easily see this being successful using @m1b's script on a line by line basis, and I'm impressed that @Robert at ID-Tasker thinks he can do it for the entire document at once.
A right way would be to play with each group of 2 lines [green + white] and move the 2 markers on the median of their horizontal alignment, avoiding of course the words number of each line changes!
Like this, just 1 click for 2,000 pages! 😉
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By @FRIdNGE
Perhaps for a change you'd like to actually share your code for doing this?
Of course such a very specific matter could be played by Script! …
Just for fun last night, written very quickly and I admit in a totally dirty way:
if time I will try to continue this discussion and a right writting of my script [alas, I don't work for free!]
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Robert, could you post a pdf of the op's sample. Problems with his fonts.
By @FRIdNGE
PDF won't by any good.
You can put fonts into "Document fonts" folder, next to the INDD doc - so no need to install them in the system.
[Just for comment!] A guy asked me in 2018 for a similar matter but we played totally differently the game (a main flow with threaded text frames through pages [big text] and anchored boxes [small text] with possibility 1/2 lines depending of the small text length).
Here what I seem to understand is that, if the op doesn't touch the text on green background [line x], how he could be sure that the line under on white background [line y] is exactly the translation of the line x, aligning the markers he show in his screenshot! … and apparently he will have to adjust each line y manually, on 2,000 pages!
Good luck to him!
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