[Publisher] multiple cursors, custom hotkeys for styles

[bellyanalytical]

Hi,

 

I am just editing a magazine in InDesign and I thought: Hey! I'd like to have multiple cursors like in common code editors and - it would be nice to be able to set custom hotkeys to paragraph and inline text-styles.

 

Thats it. Would be nice if this could be considered

 

cheers

Steffen

[MikeW]

It's difficult for me to really know what you are meaning about multiple cursors. Likely not enough coffee this morning. Would you elaborate a bit?

 

Thanks, Mike

[Aammppaa]

Here is an example of how multiple cursors are used when writing code…

 

https://docs.c9.io/docs/multiple-cursors

[MikeW]

I use a code editor every day. What I don't know is how it applies to a layout application. I do have an idea of what may be meant but thought I would as the OP specifically what it means as regards a layout application.

[Aammppaa]

Agreed - not sure how this really applies to a DTP / layout app.

[A_B_C]

Custom hotkeys (keyboard shortcurts) are already available for text styles in Designer, so I think it is a safe bet that they will be available in Publisher as well … 

 

(I’d be also interested in the use of multiple cursors in a layout application … hmm …)

 

 

[v_kyr]

This (multiple cursors/carets) is nowadays a common and powerful feature for text editors (thanks to Sublime Text which made this prominent), aka when programming/coding or writing/altering web page and stylesheets etc. - However I too wonder of what usefulness this feature should be instead for magazine text contents and InDesign?

Instead this here ...

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...it would be nice to be able to set custom hotkeys to paragraph and inline text-styles.

... might be general more useful.

[bellyanalytical]

@A_B_C

Nice! Thanks for the hint! Haven't researched properly before. That's awesome.

 

Regarding multiple cursors: I was editing a rather long list of paragraphs the other day which align about to that pattern: “bold-word em-space normal-text”

But I received them as “normal-text space normal-text”. With multiple cursors all along on each parapgraph I could format every paragraph in one take.

 

Other example:

Another Text consists of a mix of paragraphs and consecutive lists - it would be nice to set a cursor on every next paragraph via a hotkey. So one could easily format like the next 4 paragraphs in one go ....

 

... mh, ok - given you don't want to move your hands to the mouse. to select the text. Maybe I that was a bit too much coding lately ... 

 

 

[MikeW]

I still don't fully understand, sorry.

 

A couple screen shots with dummy text showing the text before formatting and post formatting would help.

[bellyanalytical]

Hi,

 

I made a tiny screencast - this is in a code editor. So I don't have bold - but I set some text into quotes which could be any inline format in designer/publisher. Furthermore I could add some punctuation if the text needs some structuring. This should roughly apply to any list-like / table-like texts.

 

I can select multiple parts of text by selecting lines while pressing alt

Or I can add a cursor a line below/above by pressing alt+cmd+up/dowm

 

One thing though: Here—in code—I edit multiple lines. In Texts it would make sense to set cursors at the beginnings of paragraphs.

 

I didn't know I'd miss it until I actually got used to it by code editing. Then back in InDesign I stumbled upon it a couple of times while editing this magazine. 

 

 

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