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InDesign Glyphs Problem.

Sep 11, 2012 1:22 AM

Tags: #font #indesign #dash #hyphen #glyphs #helvetica

Hey.

I have a little question.

I want to change the default dash of one of my fonts in InDesign. So if I use the normal key "-" the dash is pretty long and I have to go to the glyphs-menu to make it shorter. Is it possible to change the short one to a default glyph in this font?

Thank you.

EDIT: The long dash only appears in the font "HelveticaNew LT 57 Cn" - in every other font, the dash has normal length.

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1. Eugene Tyson,

Sep 11, 2012 2:46 AM in reply to moeAUT

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You could set up a GREP Style, within your paragraph style.

look for

\-

then create a new character style and change the Horizontal scaling to the desired amount.

Any time you type the - the GREP style will kick in and the Horizontal scaling will apply to the -.

But be warned, copying this text to another document may cause the dash to resize to normal.

If you want to edit the glyph itself you'd have to use a font editor.

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2. moeAUT,

Sep 11, 2012 5:15 AM in reply to Eugene Tyson

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Ok, thanks for that.

But in the glyph library for this font, there is a shorter dash - can I somehow make the short dash to my default dash?

Best regards.

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