GREP
Building EBooks with InDesign – Forced Line Breaks
Sunday, January 1st, 2012
Org. posted 1-Jan-2012, Updated 3-Jan-2012 / Postscript added One of the pitfalls of converting print publications to EBooks, is that designers often use forced line breaks (Shift+Return/Enter) in print-layouts to control where headings and even paragraph lines are broken. Doing so can cause problems when the same document is also converted to EPUB later on. [...]
GREP – Speaker Notes
Tuesday, September 14th, 2010
The “Getting Grip on GREP” speaker notes Cari Jansen put together after speaking at the August 2010 Melbourne InDesign User Group are available for download online.
GREP it vertically in InDesign
Tuesday, May 4th, 2010
“How do I set vertical type in InDesign?” was a question that landed in my email box today. In all honesty, setting vertical type in InDesign does require the opening of ‘the box of tricks’. I’m writing this tip in two parts. The first part (found below) will show you a pretty quick and dirty [...]
Introducing GREP Styles (4)
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
The following tip is the fourth tip in a series of tips on GREP. It’s one of my personal favourites. Part 1: Automatically apply a character style to all text between parentheses Part 2: Change the appearance of numbers (figures) within a given paragraph style Part 3: Converting text typed in Capital Letters to Small Caps (OpenType feature) [...]
Introducing GREP Styles (3)
Monday, July 6th, 2009
This is the third in a series of tutorials about InDesign’s GREP styles. Part 1: Automatically apply a character style to all text between parentheses Part 2: Change the appearance of numbers (figures) within a given paragraph style Part 4: Formatting price tags containing dollars and cents with multiple character styles In this third tutorial we look [...]
Introducing GREP Styles (2)
Sunday, July 5th, 2009
This is the second in a series of four short GREP Style tutorials. Part 1: Automatically apply a character style to all text between parentheses Part 3: Converting text typed in Capital Letters to Small Caps (OpenType feature) Part 4: Formatting price tags containing dollars and cents with multiple character styles In this second tutorial we [...]
Introducing GREP Styles (1)
Saturday, July 4th, 2009
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 continued the “GREP-theme’ through its ability to lock this pattern based application of character styles into your Paragraph Styles. The following tutorial is part of [...]
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 [...]