Comments on: Nested Styles and Quote Marks

By: Jaimé

Jaimé — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:34:33 +0000

Thank you! I’ve been trying to find out a solution for ages!

By: thatcher

thatcher — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:34:14 +0000

Is is possible to apply a nested paragraph style to selected text only?
OR
To create nested character styles?

Here’s the situation:
I have a 120+ page document with hundreds of instances of various brands, and a list of those brands. The brands need be changed to italics, and next to each brand we need to add a superscripted number.

There must be a way to use find/replace + apply a nested style that would turn everything up to the last character italics, and then superscript the last character!
But how?

By: Niall Funge

Niall Funge — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 16:06:41 +0000

Can we all get away from typographer’s quotes and curly quotes. Quotation marks are quotation marks period. The punctuation marks being used incorrectly in so much design nowadays were originally called Prime and Double Prime.

If people are going to use high end typographical products (not freeking desktop publishing crap) then can we please get the vocabulary correct.

Sorry — I had to get that off my chest!

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:12:02 +0000

All this talk about the quotes is neither here nor there, the solution is perfect and each to their own on their preference. I for one didn’t know you could type any character into the space for the nested style *searches for the embarrased smiley*

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:09:51 +0000

And that’s the third time today I’ve used there instead of their… oops

By: Eugene Tyson

Eugene Tyson — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:09:11 +0000

No no, Anne-Marie is correct, inch marks is a different glyph, often straight quotes are used to depict inch marks, which is now on my list of things that annoy me. Has anyone mentioned the Use Typographers Quotes in the preferences yet? Really if you are quoting they should be “Curly Quotes”. But each to there own, I’ve no right to be a critic Thanks for your support Lauren, they are an eyesore in fairness.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:20:37 +0000

I agree with Eugene…it makes me nuts every time I see a nice ad in a magazine with those “carrot sticks”! They are tres ugly. Give me a curly quote any time!

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 14:51:30 +0000

Oh ok, I stand corrected.

By: Anne-Marie

Anne-Marie — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:54:18 +0000

Personally, I call them straight quote marks because inch marks are slanted slightly…they’re a different glyph.

By: Eugene

Eugene — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:03:15 +0000

I’m a little bit testy about this. It’s not a straight quotation mark at all, it’s an inch mark. I’m sorry, but it gets me up all the time and when I see it in text it annoys me. I may be wrong about the classification of this but for me it’s always been an inch mark.