![]() The last âscriptingâ activity Iâve done was creating and teaching courses on the use of macros in Word Perfect 5.1! Iâm way over my head here. I agree that I probably shouldnât be in this forum. It would work, I guess, but you'd end up with character rather than paragraph styles, and there are some handwavy philosophical reasons that I think it would be a bad idea.Īnyhow, what do you think of the above options? I don't think this is a good use of GREP styles, no. I think that's a silly way to do it if htere are built-in features that meet your needs, but perhaps there aren't (See above). We could certainly also automate the search-and-replace you mention. There are various ways to automate that, including via an InDesign script. To be honest, I think the simplest automation would be to transform your existing file into a proper InDesign tagged Text file by search-and-replacing "<" with "will explore that.Īnother option Iâve used is to place the tagged text in PageMaker 6.5, which understands what I want and converts the tags to styles. Right now, this is what I am doing:Ĭreate tagged text file with all editing in place It sounds kind of clunky, if I canât define my own tags. Anyway, I will try exporting the file and seeing what the headers at the top of the file look like. It seems that a perfectly wonderful function from PageMaker has disappeared entirely in InDesign. Thanks (and apologies to those who already saw this in the general discussion), It seems that such a great (and incredibly easy) function shouldn't be gone. There is a lot online about exporting tagged text, but where, oh where, is my checkbox for placing tagged text? If someone knows where it is, I'd be very grateful. I can't believe it is no longer there, but I can't find it. I can't find the equivalent checkbox in InDesign. If it wasn't defined in the PM document, it came in in the basic style but could be formatted on the fly in PageMaker. ![]() I could use anything I wanted for a text tag, as long as it was in. In PageMaker, there was a checkbox in the "place"Äialogue box named "Read tags." I checked that, and when I placed the file in the template (in which I had the styles defined), the whole chapter appeared with the formatting I wanted for each style. I posted this in the general discussion and was pointed to scripting.Īnd so on.
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