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Tom Tomasko
Tom Tomasko
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[CS3] Can a paragraph style add a character?

Mar 27, 2012 9:53 AM

Hello,

 

I have paragraphs that are interviews. The raw text looks like this:

 

Interviewer: This is my question...

 

How I want it to look:

 

INTERVIEWER:[non-breaking space] This is my question...

 

It is easy enough to make a nested style that applies small caps through to the colon. But can a style be constructed to also add the non-breaking space after the colon, which does not exist in the raw text?

 

Thanks,

 

Tom

747 Views   7 Replies   Latest reply: Willi Adelberger, Mar 27, 2012 10:46 AM
 
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  • Willi Adelberger
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    1. Willi Adelberger,
    Mar 27, 2012 10:04 AM   in reply to Tom Tomasko
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    You can create a style which includes "Interviewer: ".

    1. Create a paragraph style
    2. Go to Bullets & Numbers
    3. List Type = Numbers
    4. Format = None
    5. Number enter: "Interviewer: "
    6. Choose or create a Character Style which formats text as caps.
     
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  • Mary Posner
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    2. Mary Posner,
    Mar 27, 2012 10:05 AM   in reply to Tom Tomasko
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    The short answer is no, styles only style text, they can't add text that isn't there. But I'd think that would be easy to do with a simple find/change.

     

    The slightly longer answer is a question: What purpose does the non-breaking space serve here? Couldn't you just use a nested style that ran up to (or including) your colon? If "interviewer: (firstword)" doesn't fit on one line, it isn't going to fit on the next line either.

     
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  • Willi Adelberger
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    3. Willi Adelberger,
    Mar 27, 2012 10:07 AM   in reply to Tom Tomasko
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    Another method would be to create a character style with no break, apply this style for the space after the colon.

    Another method could be to apply the non break character style via GREP style.

     
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  • Joel Cherney
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    4. Joel Cherney,
    Mar 27, 2012 10:18 AM   in reply to Mary Posner
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    But I'd think that would be easy to do with a simple find/change.

     

    Yeah, that'd be much, much easier than applying the No Break attribute in a character style using Nested Styles. (No GREP styles in CS3, Willi.)

     

    I guess it would depend on whether NBSP and normal space w/No Break attribute applied are functionally identical in this case. Can't see why they'd not be so, but I suppose it'd be possible. HTML/Dreamweaver export, perhaps.

     
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  • Tom Tomasko
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    5. Tom Tomasko,
    Mar 27, 2012 10:24 AM   in reply to Mary Posner
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    Mary posed an important question, why a non-breaking space?

     

    My bad, I meant to say a non-breaking fixed-width space. The fixed width is what is important because the text will be justified and I don't want to squish or stretch this space.

     

    Willi, what is a "GREP style?" Did you mean GREP search?

     
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  • Willi Adelberger
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    6. Willi Adelberger,
    Mar 27, 2012 10:48 AM   in reply to Mary Posner
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    Mary Posner wrote:

     

    The short answer is no, styles only style text, they can't add text that isn't there. But I'd think that would be easy to do with a simple find/change.

     

    The slightly longer answer is a question: What purpose does the non-breaking space serve here? Couldn't you just use a nested style that ran up to (or including) your colon? If "interviewer: (firstword)" doesn't fit on one line, it isn't going to fit on the next line either.

     

    Did you read my post, of course a praragraph style can add text at the beginning of the paragraph.

     
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  • Willi Adelberger
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    7. Willi Adelberger,
    Mar 27, 2012 10:46 AM   in reply to Tom Tomasko
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    I mean a GREP style as part of a paragraph style. It was implemented in CS4.

     
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