Not sure if this helps at all; I'm just thinking out loud.
Indesign has had a feature for the last few versions called GREP styles.
I've used it to do exactly what Carol wants to do: highlight certain
words or word combinations (maybe even in certain places, or
followed/preceded by certain characters). When you want to add a new
word, you just add a new GREP style. GREP styles are applied on the fly
all the time (i.e., once the GREP style is made, it applies itself
without any further user intervention).
Has anyone ever heard of a GREP style add-on for Frame?
Kenneth Benson
Pegasus Type
www.pegtype.com
On 6/25/2012 4:13 PM, Carol J. Elkins wrote:
Framers, I'm looking for ideas on how to ensure that certain words and
phrases in a document are always italicized whenever they are used.
Perhaps someone knows of a script that will do this. If not, I'll ask
Rick when he gets back on his feet. Ideally, there would be an
external master list of the words to be italicized. When opened, the
working file would access the master list of words and make sure that
any word in the list is italicized when it appears in the working
document. I should be able to add to the master list of words; I'm not
concerned about what happens if I delete a word from the master list.
Restrictions: I'm not willing to do a search/replace operation every
time a working document is revised. And I'm not willing to do anything
more than type a word in the working document for it to be recognized
as needing italics. Although I have Silicon Prairie's Autotext add-on,
I don't think that it does what I need. I have a vague memory of
MSWord or some elderly word processor (the only kind I'm familiar with
since I'm elderly) having this functionality.
Any ideas?
Carol
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