GREP
Introducing GREP Styles (4)
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Digitip 090 – InDesign CS4 – GREPpin’ ahead or GREPpin’ behind
The following tip is the 4th tip in a series of tips on GREP that I’m working on. It’s one of my personal favourites. Probably because I’ve worked with so many people in my carreer who set those Ads you find in your letter box [...]
Introducing GREP Styles (3)
Monday, July 6th, 2009
This is the third in a series of tutorials I’ll be writing up about GREP styles. The previous GREP Tutorial is about applying a different style to figures.
In this tutorial we look at how we can convert text typed in Capital Letters to Small Caps.
Let’s get started.
Introducing GREP Styles (2)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
Digitip 089 – Adobe InDesign CS4 – GREP your Figures
This is the second in a series of short GREP Style tutorials. I introduce GREP styles in the first post in this series. In this short tutorial we look at how we can use a GREP style to change the appearance of any figures within a [...]
Introducing GREP Styles (1)
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
Digitip 088 – Adobe InDesign CS4 – GREP Styles (1)
InDesign CS3 introduced the ability to perform GREP Find/Changes, making it easier for us to apply character styles to text pattern strings such as ‘all text’ between parentheses. InDesign CS4 introduces the ability to lock this pattern based application of character styles into your Paragraph Styles.
In [...]
How do I create fractions in InDesign?
Monday, August 25th, 2008
Digitip 075 – Adobe InDesign
InDesign out-of-the-box, does not contain a ‘Make Fraction” command, like other applications such as QuarkXPress have, so if you’re a Quark converter (Welcome a-board by the way!!!), how do you go abouts creating fractions in InDesign?
So how can setting fractions be made easier? Well, there are a number of options available. [...]
Grokking Grep for Geeks Only?
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
Kris Coppieters, with the “work-in-progress” Grep Grokker GREP Tutor, has added another contribution for those of use out there wanting to learn Grep. Bedankt daarvoor Kris!
Web-reference: GrepTutor (2008, Rorohiko)
Web-reference: Grep-it-and-sort-it (2008, Cari Jansen)
Web-reference: Grep examples, downloadable InDesign file, with some of the GREP samples I used during last year’s GREP session at the InDesign Conference in [...]
GREP it and sort it
Friday, February 29th, 2008
Digitip 070 – Adobe InDesign
During the GREP session at the InDesign Conference in Melbourne late August last year, I demoed the “swapping of first name and surnames” and have been meaning to add a tip on this to my blog for sometime in which we GREP it and then sort the names alphabetically. Last night’s [...]
InDesign CS3 Conference
Friday, August 31st, 2007
First of all, thank you to everyone who attended the GREP and XML sessions for InDesign CS3 I presented at the InDesign Conference in Melbourne yesterday and today, also thank you for all the kind compliments.
As promised yesterday I would upload the actual InDesign document I used for the GREP session. The web-link below will [...]