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1. Re: Search for rubi
Ellis home Oct 7, 2014 8:09 PM (in response to NIRC)Can you give more details. What version of Indesign are you using? How did you create rubi?
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2. Re: Search for rubi
NIRC Oct 7, 2014 10:27 PM (in response to Ellis home)I use the Japanese version of CS6 to create true rubi, but they also display properly in the English-language version.
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3. Re: Search for rubi
Willi Adelberger Oct 7, 2014 10:56 PM (in response to NIRC)You can install your Japanese version above any other language version (except ME versions) as it will add plugins and will add menu items in the other language too.
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4. Re: Search for rubi
NIRC Oct 7, 2014 11:02 PM (in response to Willi Adelberger)I really don't need to do that. The Japanese version is rather iffy for typesetting in Roman letters. But if I could search for rubi in EITHER of them, I'd be happy. There is no way to do it in Japanese either, as least as far as I have been able to figure out.
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5. Re: Search for rubi
rob day Oct 8, 2014 5:53 AM (in response to NIRC)Try asking over in the scripting forum. All of the ruby properties are available in any of the text objects—text, paragraph, word, etc.—so it should be easy to script. Something like this AppleScript:
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--the search and replace font sizes
set myRubySize to 12
set myRubySizeChange to 10
tell application "Adobe InDesign CS6"
--all of the document text
set w to object reference of every word of every story of active document
repeat with x in w
set f to ruby flag of x
if f then
try
if ruby font size of x is equal to myRubySize then
set ruby font size to myRubySizeChange
end if
end try
end if
end repeat
end tell
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6. Re: Search for rubi
NIRC Oct 8, 2014 3:48 PM (in response to rob day)Thanks for all the trouble, but I have never tried scripting and in any case do not want to change ALL the rubi but only certain ones. I am surprised that there is not a search and replace, or at least a search function for rubi in Japanese or English inDesign.
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7. Re: Search for rubi
Ellis home Oct 8, 2014 4:11 PM (in response to NIRC)I'm guessing they don't have their own paragraph style you can search for?
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8. Re: Search for rubi
NIRC Oct 8, 2014 5:03 PM (in response to Ellis home)Rubi are a character attribute, like a footnote number except that they are set over a group of Chinese characters to indicate their pronunciation.
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9. Re: Search for rubi
Ellis home Oct 8, 2014 6:27 PM (in response to NIRC)I'm aware of what rubi are. But I haven't had a chance to work with them on a document. I tested them with Japanese copy/pasting from Word and I can actually select them and assign a paragraph style. That's why I asked.

