Just ordered a copy of Professional Design Techniques with Adobe Creative Suite 3, too. Thanks for helping wrangle us a discount; it offset the painful international shipping.

Love your new crib, so to speak. Just added it to my Bookmarks.

JW

When I think about it too much my brain turns inside out though. The Non-Joiner you recommend (only available in CS3) is a better alternative, imo, for these kind of markers.

AM

Looking forward to all the cool videos + other goodies you have planned!

AM

I have been playing a little more, and I think having a character style for the hebrew word/s may be the best way to go. I select those few words and nothing else is affected.

Not at automated as I would like… but hey

Thanks a ton!

There’s one way to “trigger” a nested style to start or stop when you’re not certain where, exactly, it will fall in your text, and where exactly it will end. You need to somehow “tag” that text by wrapping some kind of unique identifier around it.

Typically, inserting an End Nested Style Here character is the best way to stop the nested formatting, but for where it starts, you’d need something like a zero-width space or a non-joiner character to act as a trigger. With those in place around the text in question, you can set your nesting up as:

None through 1 non-joiner, then HebrewFontStyle through 1 End Nested Style Here character.

It’s a trade-off in efficiency, though, because the insertion of the special characters is work that needs to be done on each instance to make the nesting work. In a perfect world, this layout would be best treated like you would a mail merge, using InDesign’s Data Merge features (see Episode 43), where the “shell” of the sentence is static, but the data placeholder is pre-styled with the character style for your Hebrew font.

Love the site, videos, podcasts etc…

I have a question, hope I’m not spoiling the housewarming party (I could always bring cupcakes!)

I am creating a congratulatory book (200-300pg’s) for people being honored at a charity dinner. I use paragraph styles and love it, but my problem is that I’m having a tough time working out how to make a change within a sentence of the style sheet.

EG:

Congratulations to the Honorees (style called text)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (style called honoree)
on this well deserved honor (style called text)

Wishing your family cuy kzn (mazel tov in hebrew font) too! (style called text, but I want the hebrew text to change to a different font)

Love,
Mr. and Mrs. Neighbor (style called from)

I never know how many hebrew words there will be (1 word, a sentence, who knows) and it’s also often within a sentence, so nested styles don’t seem to be working for me.

Help!

Thanks so much….

I hope this makes sense!