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I’m sure Mike would agree that the smartest way to do this is to create a No Language character style or perhaps even separate ones for your common uses:
No Hyphen
No Spell Check
Web Address
The more precise the meaning you apply to text via styles, the more flexibility you’ll have. If all web addresses have their own character style, for instance, and you decide that for readability sake they need to be in a monospace font, that change can be made in mere seconds.
I use this script https://www.id-extras.com/products/hyperlinkpro to solve the problem of hyperlinks. It follows the rather odd rules of CMS.
2 problems you get by applying »No Language« to text:
(a)
You loose metric kerning. So do apply »No Language« with a character style and don’t forget to set kerning to »Optical Kerning«.
(b)
»No Language« ignores all OpenType features that you may use in your text style and displays the font only with its standard features. So if you’re using a different feature set for all digits, it is lost. Sadly there is no workaround to this.
To illustrate this, you can visit this page:
https://wantzen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/no-language-and-numbers.png
Tobias: HUH?! What version of InDesign are you using? I am using the US version of InDesign CC and what you describe does NOT happen to me.
Setting text or numbers to No Language does not affect metrics kerning or opentype features. Perhaps it is your version or your fonts?
David, you’re right! It’s the font. I have one project, with heavy use of URLs and there it is ScalaPro which shows this weird behaviour. If I change to Minion or others, everything is fine.
Thanks for pointing this out!