Wosven Posted March 26, 2020 Posted March 26, 2020 Hi, It would be usefull to get an option that exclude the end characters in the propriety Initials word of a text style. For example for this : Word, blabla blaWord (comment)Some more words (comment) I dont wan't the comma or the parenthesis to be bold when they are in the end characters. Quote
garrettm30 Posted March 26, 2020 Posted March 26, 2020 I agree with this suggestion. I thought that we could use regex for the end characters, but I can't make it work in this circumstance, so I must be remembering something else incorrectly. Quote
Old Bruce Posted March 26, 2020 Posted March 26, 2020 I use a Zero Width space before the comma, bracket whatever and include the Zero Width Space as an ending character in the definition. Pain if there are lots of things but it does work. garrettm30 1 Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
Wosven Posted March 26, 2020 Author Posted March 26, 2020 The principle is to paste your texte and have everything formatted in a blink, adding extra chracater or selecting the word to add bold or whatever take nearly the same amount of time. And adding extra invisible characters can be a problem later when needing to search text in a document or pasting in another application, for example. Quote
Old Bruce Posted March 26, 2020 Posted March 26, 2020 I agree. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
comancheTodd Posted February 16, 2021 Posted February 16, 2021 On 3/26/2020 at 10:33 AM, Old Bruce said: I use a Zero Width space before the comma, bracket whatever and include the Zero Width Space as an ending character in the definition. Pain if there are lots of things but it does work. Old Bruce, I have encountered the concept of using Zero Width Space with "Initial Words," to delimit the initial words BUT— —I cannot enter a ZWSP character directly into the "end characters" field, because all the characters under the "Text > Insert > Spaces & Tabs > menu are shaded —the code in angle brackets, <ZWSP>, (as suggested in a post somewhere) DOESN'T WORK. —I can't find anywhere in any documentation, forum, or on the Internet where the use of HTML codes like that are suggested or allowed. Please elaborate. PLEASE. comancheTodd Quote
Old Bruce Posted February 16, 2021 Posted February 16, 2021 17 minutes ago, comancheTodd said: —I cannot enter a ZWSP character directly into the "end characters" field, because all the characters under the "Text > Insert > Spaces & Tabs > menu are shaded I will use the Menu for Text > Insert > Spaces......... Then I will carefully select the zero width space and copy (or cut, if necessary) then I can call up the Text Styles and paste this into the ending spot. It will look empty until you open the Text Styles again and then it will look like <zwsp> Here you can see that I have 7 words for the maximum but it ends after the blue triangle which is the zero width space between two plain spaces, the dots. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.7 | Affinity Photo 2.5.7 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.7 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that.
kenmcd Posted February 16, 2021 Posted February 16, 2021 49 minutes ago, comancheTodd said: I can't find anywhere in any documentation, forum, or on the Internet where the use of HTML codes like that are suggested or allowed. I went looking for this recently to insert some Unicode characters directly. ... found it here:https://affinity.help/publisher/en-US.lproj/index.html?page=pages/Text/specialCharacters.html?title=Special characters and glyphs To insert glyphs/Unicode characters directly using Hex code: Click for an insertion point in the text. Do one of the following: For a glyph: Type 'G+' then enter the Hex code, e.g. '02F5' or '2F5'. For a Unicode character: Type 'U+' then the Hex code, e.g. '0040', '040' or '40'. Toggle from code to displayed character by using Text>Toggle Unicode. Toggle back to Hex code using the same command; keep insertion point at end of character. Quote
comancheTodd Posted February 16, 2021 Posted February 16, 2021 23 minutes ago, Old Bruce said: I will use the Menu for Text > Insert > Spaces......... * * * Then I will carefully select the zero width space and copy (or cut, if necessary) then I can call up the Text Styles and paste this into the ending spot. It will look empty until you open the Text Styles again and then it will look like <zwsp> Here you can see that I have 7 words for the maximum but it ends after the blue triangle which is the zero width space between two plain spaces, the dots. * * * OK, that make's sense. I was trying to type in "<ZWSP>" into the field (with various quotes around it or not), because some other post made is sound like that's what you do. I also tried copying it from the text, and for some reason that didn't seem to work either (though that may have been my fault). On my Mac, the Character Selector (badly named "Show Emojis and Symbols" —I guess we know what audience they care about!) was confusing to copy from, but I found that if you go to https://unicode-table.com/en/search/ and search for the character ("ZWSP" and "Zero Width Space" both work), it "shows" you the character, and has a convenient button to "Copy" it. It worked perfectly. Thanks for the clarification, Old Bruce!! Quote
loukash Posted February 17, 2021 Posted February 17, 2021 14 hours ago, comancheTodd said: Mac, the Character Selector (badly named "Show Emojis and Symbols" —I guess we know what audience they care about!) was confusing to copy from A truly helpful free app that I've been using since at least 2003 is earthlingsoft.net/UnicodeChecker It has a search filter, you can save favorites, and it also provides useful MacOS Services commands like display full info on a selected character, or percent and HTML entities escape conversion. (Sadly, Affinity apps are "immune" to MacOS Services so you may want to temporarily copy your text to TextEdit or BBEdit first.) garrettm30 1 Quote MacBookAir 15": MacOS Ventura > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // MacBookPro 15" mid-2012: MacOS El Capitan > Affinity v1 / MacOS Catalina > Affinity v1, v2, v2 beta // iPad 8th: iPadOS 16 > Affinity v2
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