Preserve italics and bold with imported text

[britt_tt]

Hello! I cannot figure out how to preserve italics on ipad with imported text. I am able to do this on desktop easily by selecting italic in the format panel in the “find and replace” section, but when I do this on ipad it does not find the instances of italic words. I tried using the regular expressions in the YouTube video linked, and it found the italic word, but then to try and assign the emphasis character style did not work correctly. Any input is appreciated!

 

[walt.farrell]

It would help to see what you did to try to apply the formatting during the Replace operation. It's not clear from your description where in the process you're having the problem.

It should be as simple as clicking on the cog icon for the Replace field, tapping on the format entry, and specifying the character style you want:

 

[britt_tt]

16 hours ago, walt.farrell said:

It would help to see what you did to try to apply the formatting during the Replace operation. It's not clear from your description where in the process you're having the problem.

It should be as simple as clicking on the cog icon for the Replace field, tapping on the format entry, and specifying the character style you want:

 

I have attached photos of my settings. On desktop I am able to specify “italics” in the format section for the “find” and then the character style of emphasis for the “replace” and then I can select/press find and it will find all instances of italicized words in the document and I can replace all. On ipad it seems I need something (word, expression, etc?) in the find panel to be able to have it work, as just putting in my parameters there is no button I can press to have it do as it does on desktop. 

*Also the “results” shown on my images is the result of me accidentally typing in an “h” in the find panel. So that is the number of instances of “h” in this work, not the number of italicized words. When I clear it all out and just select the settings nothing shows there.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. I've identified at least two bugs in that area that I'm going to report now. I'll provide a pointer here when I've done that.

It does seem that Finding using Regular Expressions, at least the useful (.*), doesn't work properly on the iPad. The Find bar shows that both of my sample occurrences were found, but they never highlight in the text frame, and replace doesn't do anything.

[walt.farrell]

Bug report: 

 

[britt_tt]

Thank you so much for checking into this. I’m glad I wasn’t missing something obvious with trying to do it and also bummed there’s not a solution yet. I appreciate you reporting the bug. Hopefully it can get addressed with the next updates.

[walt.farrell]

You're welcome.