special characters in tagged text

[ondrej_mlejnek@adobeforums.com]

hello,

i'm new to indesign (long time ventura user but couldn't stand stability issues no more) and i need some info about special characters codes used in tagged text.

i'm playing with nested styles now and can't find what character should be inserted for "end nested style character" if i want to use it when importing tagged text file. other characters are "tab" and "soft line break (called forced line break in indesign)"

thanks

ondrej

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

The traditional way to answer this kind of question is to construct some text with the character of interest in it, then export it as tagged text and see what you get.

Have you tried this?

Dave

[ondrej_mlejnek@adobeforums.com]

yes, i tried this, but the result from exported text file made in a way you mentioned was not exactly what i needed (soft line break seems to be a line break when viewed in text editor, "end nested style character" looked like a black square...) i need the codes that represent these characters (in ventura, there was "<R>" for soft line break or "" for tab for example) and i just wanted to know if there is something simillar in indesign or i need to insert them in a different way (maybe as ascii codes?).

thanks

ondrej

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

I was afraid that might be the case. Part of this is the result of unicode -- things don't need tags when they can be directly created. But that doesn't make it easy to create them out there in the world of other editors.

Sorry, not much use, I know.

Dave

[Kristel_van_der_Pouw_Kraan@adobeforums.com]

I'm also new at Indesign, but i can't seem to use the Tagged Text. I have tried (InDesign CS). Also tried dave's script, but I get an error. Pagemaker was so easy, please tell me it isn't as complicated as I think it is.
Thanx in advance
Kristel

[Dave_Saunders@adobeforums.com]

Kristel,

You're talking about a different kind of tagging.

ondrej,

It occurs to me that the Indo palette in ID CS will show you the unicode value of any selected character. And, I believe that you can use that to form a tag.

Aha, yes! The tag for end nested style here is: <0x0003>.

Dave