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[Publisher] multiple cursors, custom hotkeys for styles


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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.

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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 ... 

 

 

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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. 9_9

 

 

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