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1. Re: Best practices: setting a language for an InDesign document
Oh, that failed. Choosing the object cursor, Ctrl+A to select everything, and then clicking Type > Character and set the Language to English, only set the language for the current page.
I found that if I zoomed out, I could select facing pages, but that was it. What a pain for a 200-page document.
Is there another way to globally set the language?
Sean
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2. Re: Best practices: setting a language for an InDesign document
Language is a character level attribute, so it must be set for the actual text. It has nothing to do with your choice of dictionaries in the prefs.
If you are sure there are no words that should not be assigned English, you can use Find/Change to change the language, or redefine the styles. or both.
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3. Re: Best practices: setting a language for an InDesign document
Is that last step, 4, what you would expect to be necessary to set the language for a document, or should step 2 have done it?
Language is a character attribute so you have to do at least step 4 and probably more, because you have to worry about styles also. Have language be a a character attribute lets you set multiple languages inside of a single doc.
I use this AppleScript (OSX only) to completely reset a doc's language. Change the first line's "English: USA" to switch languages
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set lang to "English: USA"
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
set pstyles to all paragraph styles of active document
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in pstyles
try
set applied language of item i of pstyles to lang
end try
end repeat
set cstyles to all character styles of active document
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in cstyles
try
set applied language of item i of cstyles to lang
end try
end repeat
try
set applied language of every paragraph of every story of active document to lang
end try
end tell
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BTW, ID online help ... bloody useless.
I've found Google searches work better. Look for the helpx.adobe.com returns
Gets
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4. Re: Best practices: setting a language for an InDesign document
Oh, this is no fun. Even that does not set the language in tables. Ugh.
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5. Re: Best practices: setting a language for an InDesign document
How do I use the Find/Change dialog box to find Spanish and replace with English US?
Belay that. The Find Format text box is apparently clickable....I might have this. I wonder if there's any way to search for any language not US English and replace with US English?
UPDATE: Find/Replace did it. Yay!
Thanks!
Sean
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6. Re: Best practices: setting a language for an InDesign document
Google is great. It knows everything.
In Windows 8, unfortunately. Is there any script for that?
Cheers,
Sean
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7. Re: Best practices: setting a language for an InDesign document
It's a simple script so ask over in the scripting forum if someone can translate it to javascript for you.
To include tables it would be:
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set lang to "English: USA"
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
set pstyles to all paragraph styles of active document
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in pstyles
try
set applied language of item i of pstyles to lang
end try
end repeat
set cstyles to all character styles of active document
repeat with i from 1 to number of items in cstyles
try
set applied language of item i of cstyles to lang
end try
end repeat
try
set applied language of every paragraph of every story of active document to lang
end try
try
set applied language of every paragraph of every cell of every table of every story of active document to lang
end try
end tell
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