InDesign Nested Styles - help

Submitted by ireid on Fri, 2008-05-16 10:36.

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This was a very good tutorial (http://creativebits.org/indesign/indesign_nested_styles) but I need to know from the experts is this:

My client LOVES using his logo type font INSIDE of paragraphs. That is every time his company name appears he has two font styles applied to it each time. So rather than selecting each instance of his company name I would like to set up a nested style so that every time his company name appears in the paragraph and the document body text, (randomly of course) It would style it automatically.

Is this possible? and how can I use nested styles to do this?

thanks

the only way i can think to

Submitted by gwells on Sat, 2008-05-17 02:47.

the only way i can think to do it is if there's a special character involved. if you place a special character before the company name, you could have a nested style that starts when the special character appears (for example, "end nested style character"), then ends as soon as the company name ends (which could be done by making it last a specific number of words that's the length of the company name).

so you'd set up the para style like this.

nested style:
[none] through 1 end nested style character
[company font style] through 2 words

now, it may sound like you have a problem because the "end nested style character" isn't there. but you should be able to search for the company name and replace it with the company name with that character before it. the beauty of that character is that it's invisible and takes no space.

now, this is all theoretical, i haven't tried it, but it should work.

Thanks

Submitted by ireid on Sat, 2008-05-17 12:15.

I've been thinking the same thing!

I'll try it out. When I have the results of the experiment (laughing like mad scientist) I shall be able to take OVER THE WORLD!

hehe

"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda

hopefully you'll share... ;)

Submitted by gwells on Sun, 2008-05-18 16:44.

hopefully you'll share... ;)

It WORKS!

Submitted by ireid on Sun, 2008-05-18 18:55.

However life couldn't BE that simple! lol

Unfortunately this company's name is not the same length each time. For example: If ACME is the name of the company, its got subsidiaries like ACME ROCKETS, ACME DESIGNER SHOES LTD, ACME ANTI-ROADRUNNER SPRAY INC. etc. (man I could go on here, that was fun coming up with those!) So you see the problem: randomly through the text where ACME might be one font (Helvetica Bold) the Sub's fontstyle is Optima Black (lets say) SO its never going to be two or three words each time. . .:P i hate clients sometimes! lol

"Try not, Do! or do not, there is no try."
-Yoda