?? Drop caps are defined in your paragraph style, and that's where you set how large it should be. In addition, you can optionally have it apply a character style automatically. Then use this paragraph style on each paragraph where you want the drop cap to appear in.

If you want to change it later on, change its size in the paragraph style, or its appearance in the character style.

Try this. Search for

^(A|An|The) (.+)$

and replace with

$2, $1

If you're about my age, you might remember a little band called “The The”. How are you gonna solve that one?

(Ed. small improvement to get rid of an extra space)

Hi Duncan,

Make a new document with a text frame. Click your text cursor into the text frame, and run this script to get a list of all ID's (ID boasts slightly over 3,200 commands!). I don't know how to get the “invoke” name, though — perhaps these are somewhere in the SDK documentation or headers. I'll have a look when I get home.

res = [];
for (a=0; a<app.menuActions.length; a++)
res.push (app.menuActions[a].name+” (“+app.menuActions[a].area+”) = “+app.menuActions[a].id);
app.selection[0].contents = res.join(“r”);

Did you think of placing your path in the line that says

f[i].insertionPoints[0].place (File ('—–replace this bit——' + name));

? It really really looks to me a path should (could) be in there.

First impression: a nice, clean-looking curriculum of someone comfortable with the concept of “using white space”. Not crowding lots of information, but clearly tabulated and using short to-the-point sentences.

A few loose remarks ;)

* Why'd you use the Distiller? Export to PDF is very trustworthy …

* Hot Pink: mmm … I think I like it. But it's tantalizingly close to 100% Magenta (I read it as 2% Cyan, 92% Magenta) — I'd make it a full 100%.

* Garamond Pro for your main text — isn't that a bit too lofty? The other day I chose it for a collection of poems, but for a CV you might want to consider a slightly less formal font — Minion Pro pairs nicely with Myriad Pro. Unless you want to make a personal point by using this font!

* On the other hand, you are using two sans fonts that visually don't match — Helvetica and Myriad. It's OK to use another font for your personal logo/infographic at the top lefts, but your are mixing sanses in your main text as well.

* Multiple-column layout: excellent! It shows you know how to distribute text and images, and are not afraid of making it just a bit more difficult.

* '4 top contributions' — I'd write “Four” in full here.

* Table on page 2: it fits snugly in the allocated “text” area, but it gets very drawn out vertically. You might want to make it just a little bit wider … (that should make it look better; if it doesn't, you might as well leave it as it is).

* Another plus (in my opinion): you used en-dashes between date ranges!

* Write out “BS” in full? (I dunno, calling it “BS” might be comme il faut in the specific area of work you are looking in to).

Aren't those stored in files somewhere in your Users/[your name]/Adobe/InDesign/5.0/ [etc.] path? I've seen these somewhere before …

(Can't recall the actual path from memory :P and also not “behind the right computer”)

The trick is to recognize the actual underlying pattern:

A number between parentheses, OR

a number range, indicated by

a number, a dash, a number, OR

any of the above repeated and separated by semicolons.

Without testing, this ought to do the job (I inserted double backslashes, which seems to defeat the slash-eating imp :D ):

(d+(-d+)?(;d+(-d+)?)*)

Notice that the 2nd half is exactly the same as the first, but with a semicolon in front and to be repeated zero or more times.

No, the dictionary and your H&J settings work in tandem — neither really “overrides” the other.

That is, if a word can be hyphenated according to the dictionary as “dic~tion~ary”, and your H&J settings (wasn't that a Quark term?) are set to at least 4 characters after first/4 characters before last, InDesign will fetch the possible hyphenation points from the dictionary, then discard the ones that don't work with the settings (and in this case none will be left, so it won't hyphenate this particular word).

The same goes for the Hyphen Limit; if ID already hyphenated the last word in three lines in a row, it won't hyphenate another one ever; regardless of what the dictionary says.

The entire system works like this: InDesign examines every possible combination of justification and hyphenation for an entire paragraph. That leads to a long list of possible breaking points; but all of them should be “valid”, that is, none of them will have less than four characters when hyphenated, and none of them will result in more than 3 hyphenated words at line ends. Then it assigns a score to each of these solutions, based upon (I think) how much the spacing would diverge from your preferred values per single line. A second run on the paragraph then tries to avoid a tight-set line followed by a loose-set one; that also gets lots of “negative points”. Finally, the mathematically best set of breaking points is used.

But the very first thing to do is assigning the correct language to all of your text! In your case it's not just the main reason for the badly broken words, it's the only reason. InDesign is extremely good in hyphenating “normal” text, and even does a fair job on specialized terminology (one of the reasons ID has a “medical” dictionary is because lots of medical terms are not based on English, but rather on Latin and Greek, which uses a different hyphenation system). Actually, most of the 'hyphenation errors' I encounter are in names, both foreign (“Sc-heidegger”) and, uhm, USA English (“Ma-cIntyre” — UK English hyphenates it correct!).