Michael B. wrote:

> Back in May, I reported this bug in IDCS4:
> [...]

260 messages since July 12, eh? Oh well, that's more than a third
of the 720 I'm now looking at, having returned from Cuba yesterday.
Didn't see all that much of the country, but happy to reply to any
eventual questions from Anne-Marie - who may be away herself, looks
like - or others, privately. The heartbreaker may be seen at
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1107821/SDC10003.AVI (433MB!), entering
at 00:00:08. I cried for days, but seem to have gotten over it now,
thankfully. "Tiel la mondo iras" = That's the way the world goes.

Anyway, thanks to Michael for the consolation on my never using the
ID spell checker (which wouldn't work with Esperanto), and on not
having CS5 (also with your problem transferring CS4 shortcuts).
I occasionally collaborate with someone who's on CS4 like me,
and probably not likely to update the suite himself since he's
jobless and fairly broke, and I don't think anybody's going to
pay for it for him.


Carol wrote:

> Perhaps an idea you do not want, but a global s/r where a thin space
> is put before the number, would that work? Of course you can test this
> manually on one instance to see if any flavor of this might help.
> Aesthetically it has solved other issues for me.

Or a hair space. For me too - I plunk 'em all the time.
My codes (again?):

Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+1 Hair
Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+2 Thin
Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+3 Sixth
Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+4 Quarter
Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+5 Nonbreaking Fixed (Variable Ctrl+Space)
Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+6 Third
Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+7 En
Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+8 Figure
Ctrl+Opt+Cmd+9 Em

Which generally gives them in their width order )though sometimes
the en space is wider than the figure space, e.g. in Minion Pro).

> But I don't recall what it does for dynamic spell checker.

Does it solve the problem? I don't see that Michael said.


Kat wrote (July 27 - I'm going through these by subject, not by date):

> I'm trying to Grep format a character that is below 2 paragraph returns and remove 1 return.
>
> Change \r(?=\r)(.)
> For Change I also tried (?=\r)\r(.)
> Found $1
> Format to style 1
>
> The problem is that it when the text-above's paragraph return is formatted along with my line. Suggestions?

Looks like you didn't get any. I have this kind of problem sometimes,
and if I remember right what always works is introducing an intermediate
step with "XXX" or something. In other words, try giving up on doing it
in a single step. It may be doable in a single step, but even if so
(and it may not be) you may need too much time to figure out how.


William wrote (July 29):

> Manually applied Character Styles should be a next-to-last resort for additional formatting (the last-resort should be local-formatting which doesn't merit the creation of a character style or would likely conflict w/ an already applied style).

I thought at an earlier point of applying character styles rather than local formatting, but of course I wanted to do that using keycodes rather than incessantly mousing to the character style panel, and that somehow didn't work out. Because you're correct (and you're correct because local formatting seems to be lost fairly invariably when text is changed to a different paragraph style), I'm reconsidering and now thinking that maybe it would help if I used different keycodes for character-style application than the normal local-formatting ones I was trying to use before, but not fully succeeding (I don't remember why not - maybe it was an "Oblique"/"Italic" problem). Maybe I'll try cmd-shift-CTRL-i, etc.

Which reminds me of a handy Mac tip I just picked up. If you type cmd-shift-4 you get a cursor and can drag a portion of your screen that will be saved as a screen shot. But if you type cmd-shift-CTRL-4, your dragged selection goes to the clipboard rather than to a file. Then you can insert it into an e-mail, for example, without having to locate place a file or throw it out (or have it cluttering your desktop) afterwards.


Roy


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