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1) a tool which will replace straight quotes and apostrophes in a body of text with smart or curly quotes and apostrophes. The reason: I get text files from various authors, and they have no idea of a standardised approach to quote marks. (Or punctuation in general, actually!)

2) When a long body of text is spread across a sequence of linked text chains, it should be possible to break the link between two frames, but to leave the text in both frames in place. In other words, breaking the actual text into smaller stories. How this would be helpful: Import a long text (e.g. a novel) into a Publisher file. Lay it out over say 200+ pages or however long the novel is. To be able to break the frames apart wherever there is a new chapter would create a separate sequence of frames for each chapter. And the big advantage of this would be to improve the program's responsiveness. Currently, editing long text can be a very slow process, waiting while the program parses all the text before it makes some change to the text, even if it is something minor like a paragraph attribute.

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There are Paragraph Styles you can set up to have the first paragraph in a chapter start in a new Column/Frame/Page(left/right). This may not improve the program's responsiveness though.

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I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.

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12 hours ago, DL Major said:

When a long body of text is spread across a sequence of linked text chains, it should be possible to break the link between two frames, but to leave the text in both frames in place. In other words, breaking the actual text into smaller stories.

Yes, that would be a useful feature.

Until such time as it is implemented, you can do the following to get separate stories:

  1. Find the spot where you want to break the story. Double-click there to insert the text cursor.
  2. Ctrl+Shift+End to select the remainder of the text to the end of the document, then Ctrl+X to cut it.
  3. Break the link to the next frame (click on the link to get the cursor with a red x in it, then click again to break the link).
  4. Navigate to the next frame, and Ctrl+V to paste the remainder that you cut into the new frame.
  5. Repeat as needed.

Yes, this is cumbersome.

An alternative would be to copy pieces of the original text, and paste those individually into separate linked frames.

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