Let’s choose this and click OK to define our newly created Character Style for our GREP style. There it is the Open Type All Small Caps. Let’s click Basic Character Formats and look at the Case menu. Berry talks about extended features including the OpenType small caps feature back in October 2006, in an article he wrote for Creative Pro.Com. One of OpenType’s extended features is that of having the ability to set true small caps characters to text, regardless of the current formatting. However since I’m using an Open Type font for my Body Text, I can prevent myself from having to jump through all sorts of hoops – Type > Change Case, being another one of them – to get this looking right. Normally that would require a painful Find/Change that changes them to lowercase first, before we can change them back to small caps, as presently no “Upper Case” style has been recorded. through this James Cook Voyages diary manuscript whilst holding down the Shift-key on the keyboard. Then Click New GREP Style, this adds a third GREP Style to our “Body Text” paragraph style.Īt the bottom of the Apply Style pop-up I can still choose New Character Style.
Right click the paragraph style in the Paragraph Styles panel to edit it and in the Paragraph Style Options click GREP Style. We’re jumping straight into the Paragraph Style and GREP style this time around (see the previous tips (1) and (2) for different approaches) In this third tutorial we look at how we can convert text typed in Capital Letters to Small Caps. Part 4: Formatting price tags containing dollars and cents with multiple character styles Part 2: Change the appearance of numbers (figures) within a given paragraph style
Part 1: Automatically apply a character style to all text between parentheses
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This is the third in a series of tutorials about InDesign’s GREP styles.