GREP find and replace for language direction
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I am designing a book to teach English speakers Hebrew.
The back has a dictionary of all the words in the book. The style of the dictionary right now is
English Word \ Transliterated Hebrew Word \ Hebrew Word and then the opposite in the next section:
Hebrew Word \ Transliterated Word \ English WordSome of the “words” are actually phrases. Right now, the punctuation is coming out on the wrong side.
Ex: Be quiet! \ Sheket! \ ??????!
Instead of: Be quiet! \ Sheket! \ !??????I have InTool’s World Ready plugin.
So I made a character style to apply to the Hebrew with the correct text direction and then I tried a GREP find and replace with the following code:
[^.,;:?!\d a-z|A-Z]+
which is supposed to find all non-English characters. It gets all dashes too, but that’s not a problem.
When I select an entire phrase with punctuation and apply my character style, it works perfectly. But the GREP is finding each individual word and not changing the punctuation placing.What am I doing wrong? How can I get it to select all non-English characters until it sees an English character (and thereby get the whole phrase) as opposed to taking each one individually and thereby accomplishing nothing?
Thanks!
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Now I haven’t tried this in InDesign, but thought I would see if it would help, you might be able to do a search for Hebrew Unicode characters, it looks like the range is 0590–05FF, so you could try doing a search for [\x{0590}-\x{05FF}]+ to find only the Hebrew characters with the punctuation at the end in a separate group, then switching the groups in your change so the punctuation comes before the Hebrew Characters.
Find: ([\x{0590}-\x{05FF}]+)([,.?!])
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oh ok, I see, that does make it harder when you have phrases, I see now why you had the space in your character range. Now I tried this with Latin and it seems to have worked, all i did was introduce a space like you had into the character range so that it would keep going until it hit punctuation.
Find: ([\x{0590}-\x{05FF} ]+)([.,;:?!])
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Hi Chris,
Good idea – I originally had it set up like that. But it was taking up too much room and was giving me grief with long phrases. I couldn’t have the format as I wrote above: Word \ Transliteration \ Hebrew word.
It would come out like
Word Transliteration Hebrew Word
Longer Word Longer Transliteration Longer Hebrew Word
with odd spacing. This would have been ok has I had one table per page, but the dictionary is in 2 columns and small – it was taking up too much room and its really like a reference at the back of the book. -
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OK, using my imagination…
What if you:
1. set up all of the the dictionary as a temporary table
2. apply the RTL to the relevant column as above
3. then convert the table back to text (using a space-slash-space for a column separator and carriage return for row separator)
4. and flow it into your 2-column pages– wouldn’t it keep the RTL settings on the former “Hebrew column”?
regards,
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Hi! I’m designing a yearbook and my problem is… is it possible to use find change in moving a word to another line? here the sample of the text i want to change the location
Name
nick name
Email address
Birthday
Address
Parent name mother
Parent name father
“Be of good courage and God shall strengthen your heart.”
Honor(s):
1st Place, Exhibit
3rd Place, Cheerdance Competition
Affiliation(s):
Member, Association of Early Childhood Education Students
Member, Senior Students’ Organization
Member, United Future Educators
Member, Youth for Christ
Scholar, Garcia
Love your duty, no matter how many hardships you face and no matter how uncertain the future that awaits. Have faith! Surely God will take you there.then i want to transfer the location of the nickname and the saying with qoute at the end of paragraph.. in order to match my design and my paragraph styles
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