Mirrored type
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Tagged: CC 2019, invisible character, mirror, reverse, Word
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November 11, 2018 at 3:17 pm #111466Shawn GirsbergerMember
I just placed a Word file into ID CC 2019 and two things have occurred.
When I view it in Story Editor, every line of text shows a small rectangle with an X at the beginning of the line.
The first heading on the page and the first paragraph following it are mirrored from how the text should actually read. At first I thought it was a foreign language, but no, I can read it in reverse.
The table that is below the first paragraph reads correctly, but also has the rectangles with Xs at the beginning of each cell, and darker rectangles with Xs between multiple choice letters.
Fortunately, when I option-click to remove the overrides to the paragraph styles of the first heading and the first paragraph, the text reverses to its proper reading order, but I don’t how to clean out the rectangles with Xs. I can’t select them, and you can’t see these invisible characters in the layout.
Now that I know that clearing the overrides (which I would do anyway) will clear up the mirroring issue, there doesn’t seem to be a problem, but I don’t know if those rectangles could cause a problem down the road.
Has anyone else experienced this? I did see these once in a CC 2018 project, when placing very old Word files. But I don’t think this is an old file.
Thanks for any guidance you can provide! -
November 12, 2018 at 10:26 am #111527Tim MurrayMember
Can you put some samples or screen shots on Dropbox or Box?
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November 4, 2019 at 10:28 am #14323807James WelshMember
I have exactly the same problem.
Did anyone ever find out what was causing this?
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November 4, 2019 at 11:09 am #14323806Tim MurrayMember
This has been around for a long time. I see these little boxes as the first character in a Note or the first character of line of type in the Story Editor. They don’t cause a problem other than readability.
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November 8, 2019 at 4:31 am #14323784Chris ThompsonMember
I don’t suppose the little box characters are some Unicode right-to-left instruction? Like U+200F RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK for example?
Why they should be there is anyone’s guess, but as Word’s involved, I wouldn’t be suprised.
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November 8, 2019 at 3:42 pm #14323745Tim MurrayMember
This a plain new document.
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