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See, nothing happened. That's the issue, Serif is rarely letting our any information, any kind of road plan, or at least features that might be planned to introduce... Nothing.

Do you see any kind of informing about progress, ideas, goals...?

Oh yes, you are right! I have another use case, which is easily solved by GREP styles, but not by anything offered by APu currently, and that is forced unbreakable spaces between a single-letter preposition (that is not "a", where a line break is permissible). I believe it could be added into the paragraph manager, but so far this hasn't happened yet, as well as other non-English specific topics like hyphenation on iPad etc. It's a shame, that Affinity so much ignores non-English creators...

Not the "to the colon" part. And also, going through the pains of entering the complete text, then search and replace, then going through the text again to do the final typesetting is by far not equal to GREP styles simply changing the style right away. Not to mention that if you want to add something, you then need to do the search and replace again, and pray that it doesn't mess up something on page 379 and twelve similar places, half of which you'll never see. Although using search and replace is possible, it is by far NOT as practical as GREP styles.

I ended up abandoning the tables altogether. I only have two columns in each master page and set of mirror styles for each language. It's not as comfortable as having tables aligned horizontally always on the same position, but it's manageable.

Unfortunately not. Affinity doesn't comment on ongoing development, until the function is in the beta phase. So we have no confirmation, whether they work on this or not. I seriously hope they do, because without this, the APu for iPad is just a useless toy...

Thanks for pointing that out, I didn't know! Of course, it doesn't work for images that are in a layer beneath the text frame, but at least that's something. I would still prefer the easy temporary activation of the move tool... Yes, in the context toolbar. Of course, there could also be a choice of workplaces or something like that, where I could switch between what Affinity has prepared, and something that I define and makes actually sense for me. But judging by this being a part of InDesign for a long time, as well as your and mine experience, it might actually make sense for much more people than just me. For all my new projects, I have switched to Affinity Publisher completely, but recently I've been forced to work with InDesign again for a while, which has reminded me, what is better in Affinity (font subsystem, multiple selection! etc.), and what is better in InDesign (mainly above mentioned). And especially the interface improvements should be fairly easy to implement. I don't know about the GREP styles, but for me, it would be sufficient to sort out the orphaned one-syllable prepositions. Which is something very easily solved with GREP styles, but the paragraph composer should be able to sort this out too... I hope version 3 will come with something like this and not in a few years.

I can sort of understand the first, as this way they won't be bothered with questions on when will this and that be done. However they could throw us a bone, or say something like this will never be done, we are planning to do this in next two years or similar things. I guess I have seen this around here already. Anyway, in what part of the forum do they comment on requests? Thanks.

Hi everyone, especially Affinity Staff! After searching and finding several abandoned posts for older version, I'd like to ask for a current update, if you are planning to introduce following options: GREP Styles. It has been quite extensively discussed in older versions, but no clear word has been said, whether it might be introduced. Could you please comment on this? Toolbar/Studio Customization. In working on my books, what I change the most is: font + text size (no issue here), text language, paragraph properties like indents and space before/after. In InDesign, all of those functions are conveniently placed in the toolbar above the workspace, but in Affinity Publisher, I need to keep switching between the Character and Paragraph Studio, which eats up a lot of time and effort. Would you be willing to let us customize that? I would gladly sacrifice another row of icons in the toolbar to get the language/paragraph spacing options right there... Maybe some presets like in ID (Essential, Typography etc.) would be a nice idea too. Ctrl/Cmd + drag to move. While in editing mode, I often need to move a picture or resize the textbox. In InDesign, this is a simple matter of pressing Ctr/Cmd and just drag or resize, and then I'm back in the editing mode. Meanwhile in APu, I need to press Esc several times in order to really quit the editing mode (once usually isn't enough, for some reason), then press V, then move/resize, and double click to get back in the editing mode. This is definitely not more practical. Or is there some patent preventing Affinity to introduce this? I love Affinity Publisher, there are many things that it does better than InDesign, but those are features sorely missed, and I'm quite sure, I'm not the only one who misses them. Maybe that Canva merger could result into something good and actually useful? Thanks for any answers, I mean, it's quite frustrating to actually pay for the software, but still not be able to reach anyone from the support team... And I'm quite sure that I'm not the only one to have such questions. Cheers, have a nice day!

Hi everyone, especially Affinity Staff! I'd like to ask, if you are planning to introduce following options: GREP Styles. It has been quite extensively discussed in older versions, but no clear word has been said, whether it might be introduced. Could you please comment on this? Toolbar/Studio Customization. In working on my books, what I change the most is: font + text size (no issue here), language, paragraph properties like indents and space before/after. In InDesign, all of those functions are conveniently placed in the toolbar, but in Affinity Publisher, I need to keep switching between the Character and Paragraph Studio, which eats up a lot of time and effort. Would you be willing to let us customize that? I would gladly sacrifice another row of icons in the toolbar to get the language/paragraph spacing options right there... Ctrl/Cmd + drag to move. While in editing mode, I often need to move a picture or resize the textbox. In InDesign, this is a simple matter of pressing Ctr/Cmd and just drag or resize, and then I'm back in the editing mode. Meanwhile in APu, I need to press Esc several times in order to really quit the editing mode (once usually isn't enough, for some reason), then press V, then move/resize, and double click to get back in the editing mode. This is definitely not more practical. Or is there some patent preventing Affinity to introduce this? Thanks for any answers, I'm quite sure that I'm not the only one to have such questions. Cheers, have a nice day!

Is still someone counting? +1 for GREP Styles. Thank you!

Hello everyone! We have a new beta cycle here, and I would like to repeat this request: please add new hyphenation dictionaries for iPad. I personally need Czech and Latin, none of which are to be found there. I guess I don't have to add that without that, Affinity Publisher for iPad is next to useless for most of the World. Please, please, do something about that. Thanks, have a nice day!

Exactly! Because Publisher on iPad is practically unusable for any real work, as the text layout without hyphenation is completely different. I'm quite surprised that this didn't get more focus from the beginning. Of course, many APu for iPad users may use English, German or other languages supported by Apple, but I think it's necessary to be able to use the identical hyphenation dictionaries for all platforms, no matter what Apple decides to offer as standard.

Any news here? By the merger with Canva, we were promissed expedited development, and as this is an important topic, I need to ask... Thanks for any reply!

Thank you, gentlemen! Yes, it helps to know that Affinity copies the following space, so unless I want to move the word before a separating character, I can place it the way I want. But still, this could be done much better... I hope Affinity will fix this. Is there something I can do to help push it forward?

Hi everyone, especially Affinity Team, there is one thing in text editing, that bugs me for quite some time: if you move a word in MS Word or similar, the program usually takes into account the surrounding of the word, i.e. if a moved word has single space before and after in its original location, it will have a single space in its new location. If you move a word like this before a full stop, comma, colon or similar character, it will wedge itself right before said character. In other words, this is a quite logical and expected behaviour. Meanwhile, APu just takes the word, sometimes with a following space, sometimes not, and just puts it wherever you drop it. Usually it attaches to a word next to the new position, which creates a strange situation, when I have to 1) move the word, 2) separate it from the word it randomly gets attached to, and 3) remove the superfluous space. Which is usually located on the other end of the word. This behaviour, along with the standard keyboard abbreviation for word jump (Alt + arrow) being used for nudge, makes moving words quite a nightmare... Could you please fix it? My suggestion: if I move a word with a single space before and after: to a single space between two words -> the moved word will have a single space before and after on a new location. The old location will have a single space. right before a separating character (full stop, comma, colon etc.) -> the moved word will jump right before the separating character, leaving a space before, but not after similar behaviour for a word before a separating character, when moved in a single space between two words. Is it possible? And would you do it? Thanks a lot, have a nice day!

I have already provided all the fonts here, but someone deleted the message. Of course, they may still have been available for Affinity. BTW, there is one more thing that might be different: I'm using a Latin hyphenation dictionary mentioned here and standard Czech hyphenation dictionary from LibreOffice, which might be in some kind of conflict with the Mac spellchecker, which however doesn't contain hyphenation.. (in my Languages list, there are two items for Czech: Čeština and Čeština (CS), for some reason...). This might also be causing some kind of error.

@MikeTO I'm just drag selecting the text and holding the mouse down on the screen, until it gets to the end. (for some reason, I cannot use the mouse wheel to do this on Mac, meanwhile on Windows, it works fine) Bookman BT S.O.Cist. is a font that I massively edited to contain the Czech special characters (áéíóúůžščřťň etc.), special Cistercian characters and the c_t ligature used automatically in Latin text (and æ+œ too, but there's nothing special about that) and couple of other characters and programming. There are no special functions for the Czech language.

@Lee_T Hi Lee, so I have tried this right after restart, selected a bit of Czech text, and it crashed. The Latin text was fine, but the Czech one lead to the crash. I did exactly this: Steps to reproduce the crash: Open the file. Go to page 371. Select the Czech text (right column) from NEŠPORY to ... well, it varies. If you manage to copy the entire feast up to the end of page 381, it works. For me it always crashes. It crashes just by selecting the text, nothing else needs to be done.

Hi Lee, yes, of course Affinity Publisher is not the only running program, there a lot of them. But it's nothing with a special need for display, overlays etc., just some text editors, Safari, some downloading client in the background... Nothing really special. I can try it again just after restart, when I'm at home and have actually time to do this. I also have two monitors, one is a 4K, the other 1080p, both with a different scaling, so that could also be a contributing factor. However for APu, I'm using only the 4K display.

OK, so I need to report that just now I did the same with Metal off, and it crashed again. So it will be a somewhat bigger problem... I just tried copying a somewhat larger amount of text, from the big title In nativitate Domini on page 371 to about where I finished up yesterday, about the end of page 378. I mean is APu that sensitive, that it cannot select 7 pages of slightly formatted text?

OK, I have disabled Metal and this went away. BTW, is it just me, or is the interface a bit slower? Anyway, if you want to try to replicate the crash, here are the fonts: I believe you will have the rest.

Yes, I got those. Affinity Publisher 2 Affinity Store-2024-01-13-145854.ips Affinity Publisher 2 Affinity Store-2024-01-13-150059.ips Affinity Publisher 2 Affinity Store-2024-01-13-150158.ips Affinity Publisher 2 Affinity Store-2024-01-13-150707.ips

Hi Affinity Team, after repeating the same crash like three times, I recon it's time to share it with you. I'm working on M1 Mac mini with Sonoma 14.2.1 on it, Affinity Publisher 2.3.1. Steps to reproduce the crash: Open the file. Go to page 374. Select the Latin text (left column) from AD LAUDES to ... well, it varies. I wanted to copy the entire feast of Nativity, i.e. from AD LAUDES to a third Antiphon (Aña.) on page 378, but sometimes it crashes even before that. It crashes just by selecting the text, nothing else needs to be done. Once I was able to select the text and even copy & paste it, only to have the program crash on me doing the same with the Czech text in the right column. Thanks for taking care for this, I think I don't need to tell you, how bloody annoying is to have the program repeatedly crash, reopen all the documents I need for my work, because - and this might be a good idea to fix too - it doesn't reopen all the bloody documents, so I need to bloody do it manually, although my settings say otherwise! Psalterium diurnale S.O.Cist.afpub

@NathanC Any chance of this feature getting into the 2.4 or 2.5 version? Thanks!