Comments on: Find/Change Objects and Attributes in InDesign CS3

By: Aimee

Aimee — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 18:22:53 +0000

Oleg, Thank you! I will pass this along to my IT guy and see if we can get this to work.

By: Oleg

Oleg — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:53:17 +0000

Aimee, I don’t think there’s a way to formulate a search that specifically excludes a certain character. And that seems exatly what you need to do in your lookaheads/lookbehinds… I can see only one workaround to address this: make up explicit lists of characters that don’t have what you don’t need. For example, the following lookahead search will find all occurences of ëë that are followed by:
1. Any lowercase letter OR
2. A space OR
3. Any digit
Any number of times
AND THEN by another ëë

ëë(?=[\l| |\d]+ëë)

Because your íí is not in the list of alternatives in square brackets, you will only find the orphaned ëë’s not followed by íí before another ëë comes around.

But you must pay attention to really include all characters that can possibly go between your opening and closing quotes in that list of alternatives — alphabet in both cases, spaces, dashes, digits, etc. — my list is just an example and I know nothing about Indian scripts. And you can’t use too generic wildcards like .+ as they will likely include your íí and that will ruin the idea.

When you’re done, it’s best to implement this as a GREP style so your orphaned quotes are painted red for you automatically.

By: Aimee

Aimee — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:41:28 +0000

I work with six different Indian languages and when we receive the translated material, I am responsible for formatting the material. Often times with quotes, our Indian keyboarders will forget to add the corresponding opening or closing quotation marks. Currently I have to run a search for opening quotation marks and then visually scan the text to make sure the corresponding closing quotation mark is there and then vice versa for closing quotation marks. I know there MUST be a way to do this using the GREP search but neither myself or our company computer tech has been able to figure it out.

In the Kannada Indian language, an opening quotation mark would be ëë or a double e-umlaut. (Obviously I am using a Kannada font called Chandana and in that font, it shows as a double opening quotation mark. But in an English font such as Times New Roman, it show as the double e-umlaut.) The closing double quotation mark in the Kannada font is íí or a double acute i.

How do I search ëë that is not followed by íí before the next ëë and have InDesign highlight that in red? And how do I do the opposite of searching for íí that is not preceeded by ëë?

If I could figure this out, it would save myself and our proofreader a TREMENDOUS amount of time! And thanks in advance for ANY help.
Aimee

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By: David Blatner

David Blatner — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:15:04 +0000

@Beth: Wow. That is pretty odd. Might be time to rebuild the ol’ preferences file!

By: Beth Thomas

Beth Thomas — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:24:48 +0000

Often, when I go into the Find/Change dialogue box and try to type in the “Find what” field it doesn’t let me and the cursor actually flicks back to the document and types there instead. So if you searching for “ink” you’ll see the first few letter appear in the Find/Change box and then disappear and appear in the document instead.

Has anyone ever had this problem? And if so, how is it fixed/avoided?

By: Rick Gordon

Rick Gordon — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 09:03:10 +0000

Yes, Trish. In AppleScript, write something like the following, using the strings that are currently in the GREP dialog (or Find Text dialog):

tell application “Adobe InDesign CS3″
  tell active document
  set tableList to tables of stories
    repeat with eachItem in tableList
      tell eachItem
        change grep –for GREP, OR
       –change text –for text
      end tell
    end repeat
  end tell
end tell

By: Trish

Trish — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 05:06:29 +0000

Does anyone know if it’s possible to search for texts in tables only?

By: Lisa Lee

Lisa Lee — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 15:40:54 +0000

Could anyone help! With the current reduction in VAT I need to amend a 40pp brochure to accommodate these price changes is there a quick way to amend all prices from 17.5% to 15% in Adobe Indesign CS3