Hi,
A few weeks back I wanted to search through my document and find all em dashes and remove any spacing either side, and add 100 kern, and I got the following brilliant answer,
You cannot do this in one step, I think, but you can use the following to find and remove whitespace around the dash in the middle of a line:
Find (.)\s*(~_)\s*(.) and change to $1$2$3
This will not work, though if the dash starts or ends a paragraph because the \s wildcard picks up the paragraph return and will delete it. If you need to include thoses cases, you'd need to build a class for the spaces instead of using the wildcard.
The reason you need to use a second step is that you only want to change the kerning betweeing the dash and the surrounding characters, and not change the kerning on the third character itself. Also you can't assign a kerning value via find/change/ so you have to settle for assigning None to kerning and adding a tracking value to simulat the kerning you want, in this case 100. If you were to apply that to the whole found string from the first query it would also space out the two characters following the dash.
So now Find .~_ and in the cahnge formatting section under basic text formatting set kerning to None and tracking to 100. You can leave the change field blank.
Now I want to do the same, not with the spacing, but just locate all '/' within the document and apply 100 kerning either side. Can someone recode this script to enable me to do so please?
Thanks in advance
Steve