Help with tagged text/style tags for ID CS please

[Corrina_Deters@adobeforums.com]

I'm trying to find information on how to format text properly so that style tags are read and applied properly in newly imported text.

I opened my PageMaker 6.5 documents in ID CS so that my old style tags get converted and I saved-as to create an ID document which worked just fine. Now I need to know how to edit my old tags in a text data file to import properly.

Twice per week I get data sent to me with a thousands of styles tags -- PageMaker liked to see <Head1> -- Quark liked @:Head1.....what does ID want to see?

I exported the newly converted PM file so that I could see what ID put in and when I copied those to my data file it imported everything as text.

Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!

[Alan_Gold@adobeforums.com]

Sounds like you need some header info in your tagged text file that tells ID what's coming up. It starts with "<ASCII-WIN>" (for example)
and goes on with some code that describes the paragraph and character sytles, etc. that follow.

If you export some text from ID as a tagged text document and open up the tagged text in Notepad, you'll see the type of info it uses.

As I recall (although it's been awhile) Quark and PM didn't need any more than the tags themselves in the document (I could be mistaken there).

In any case, if you have a bunch of PM docs with similar styles, you can set up a routine where you search for <HEAD1> and replace with <pstyle:HEAD1> (for example), and then paste your standardized intro code into the text file and import away . . . if that's useful for what you need to do.

There's a lengthy description of tagged text files somewhere on the ID CDs -- maybe in a "goodies" or "support" folder . . .

HTH
AG

[Olav_Kvern@adobeforums.com]

Hi Corrina--

I have a script that can convert a PageMaker-style markup to an InDesign tagged text file--drop me a line directly (my email is under my user name) and I'll send it to you. If you like, you could send me an example file first--that way I could see if it works with the script.

It's also covered in "Real World Adobe InDesign CS"--as far as I know, that's the only place that discusses process of converting from PageMaker paragraph style tags to InDesign tagged text.

But the script is easier and quicker.<g>

Thanks,

Ole