Alignment in Numbers.

How do you turn the alignment of text around to 90 degrees or 45 degrees?
Message was edited by: Kate T.

You need to use a text box & then rotate it using the metrics inspector.

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Right-align footnote numbers

Is there a way to right-align footnote numbers so that they will align like this:
1. Text of footnote
12. Text of footnote
123. Text of footnote
instead of like this (an abomination):
1. Text of footnote
12. Text of footnote
123. Text of footnote
The obvious way would seem to be to add a tab as prefix (in Document Footnote Options|Numbering and Formatting) and set the tab as right-aligned in the paragaph style, but the dialog will not accept a tab (^t).
I can't see any way to set the alignment in the para style options either.
At the moment I use three paragraph styles Fn #, Fn ## and Fn ### with varying indents, but it’s cumbersome and unreliable having to reassign styles when footnotes are added or deleted.

In 2006-2007 I converted 32 publications from Ventura to InDesign. From 200 pages to 3,200 pages. I feel your pain. Ventura was a crazy program. I was updating things in Ventura. I'd save it and go home and then the next day half the book (not the changes just literally half the text from the book) had disappeared. Gone. So frustrating.
Regarding indexing:
We outsourced our indexing to an indexer, we just gave him/her a pdf of the book and we a got an index back.
Similar to yourself, it has cases and statutes in all the books. So I've never really used the indexing feature, I have ledt that to a pro indexer. Hopefully someone else can you point you on that.
But if you need any more help converting from Ventura to InDesign let me know. I did a lot of automating of the books, chapter numbers, pages, numbered paragraphs, TOCs etc.
My proudest moment was using GREP to apply styles to the 3,200 page book. I opened all the chapters and applied master pages with variables for running heads (as they changed each page (cs3 came along just at the right time ). I then proceeded to GREP find and replace millions of text across literally thousands of pages. I applied all the styles to all the text in the right places in 2 days. It then took me 2 weeks to proofread my new document. Which had a few hic-ups but sorted quite easily.
So hopefully my little success story will inspire you some how.

Aligning instance numbers

I sometimes end in a situation where a flow of jobs are "out of sync" - meaning that they normally run sequentally and therefore always have similar instance numbers. They have dependencies based on "Match Occurrence" - for many reasons.
But if they get out of sync, I can't find a way to align instance numbers again. I need a way to remove un-completed jobs, to get back so I can start with instance # 1 again.
I run TES 6.1.
Thanks,
Mogens

Have you check the settings in the Query designer properties. Open the query -> go to the query properties-> Value display tab -> Choose Display of +/- signs after the number.

Right align all numbers in table of contents

One of the entries in my table of contents has the page number right beside the entry. The rest of the page numbers are right aligned.
When I "Show Invisibles", an arrow is in the single space between the entry and the page number. For the remaining entries, it is in the middle of the page.
I've tried redoing the heading on the page in question about 100 times. I cannot figure out what is different about that heading that is screwing the ToC up.
Thanks.

Hey
I'm really struggling with my pages as I have created a table of contents for iWork09 but it's defaulted for the pages numbers to sit directly after the chapter rather than face the opposing side like your picture shows. I tried changing the tabs and then the text layout from left to across the page but all it does it push the numbering to the next line (for the longer titles) and push the numbers across (for the shorter named titles). I can't even get the lines to appear so that the chapter title appears, then some dots leading to the number. Any ideas?

Aligning chapter numbers in table of contents

Hello,
In tables of contents, Pages doesn't align the chapter numbers correctly. I get this (left alignment) :
8.
9.
10.
and I need this (alignment on decimal point) :
8.
9.
10.
Do you know how to do it ? Thanks in advance.
Cheers, Pierre
Mavericks 10.9.1, Pages 4.3

If that is the beginning of the line you will have a problem as you need to use an inset decimal or right hand tab and precede the text with a Tab.
You may have to export the T.O.C. as text, bring it back in and format it manually.
Peter

Listing Bookmark Script Align Page Numbers to Right

Hello,
I have a script which will list Bookmark Names and then the Page Number after the bookmark as follows:
Bill Smith Page#1
Jeffrey Jones Page#5
Christopher James Page#8
What I would like the script to achieve is to list the bookmarks and then align the Page numbers to the right side of the pdf instead of jumbled together.
Can anyone please advise if it is possible to do this in javascript?
The existing code is as follows:
/* List all Bookmarks */
/* Recursively work through bookmark tree */
function PrintBookmarks(bm, nLevel)
    if (nLevel != 0) { // don't print the root
        bmReport.absIndent=bmTab*(nLevel-1);
bm.execute();
            bmReport.writeText(" "+bm.name +" Page "+(bm.doc.pageNum +1));
    if (bm.children != null)
          for (var i = 0; i < bm.children.length; i++)
            PrintBookmarks(bm.children[i], nLevel + 1);
bmTab = 20;
bmReport = new Report();
bmReport.size = 2;
bmReport.writeText(this.title);
bmReport.writeText(" ");
bmReport.size = 1.5;
bmReport.writeText("Listing of Bookmarks");
bmReport.writeText(" ");
bmReport.size = 1;
PrintBookmarks(this.bookmarkRoot, 0);
global.bmRep = bmReport; // make global
global.wrtDoc = app.setInterval(
    'try {'
    +'       reportDoc = global.bmRep.open("Listing of Bookmarks");'
    +'       console.println("Executed Report.open");'
    +'       app.clearInterval(global.wrtDoc);'
    +'       delete global.wrtDoc;'
    +'       console.println("Executed App.clearInterval");'
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    +'       reportDoc.info.Author = "List Bookmark Sequence";'
    +'} catch (e) {console.println("Waiting...: " + e);}'
    , 100);
Any help will be much appreciated

Thank you very much for your help.
I have modified the script to have the bookmarks and page numbers on separate lines, however the indent does not go further than the middle of the page on the seconde line for the page numbers, no matter how much the indent is modifed (I am also using version 8 of Adobe).
Can you please advise how to get the indent to increment past the middle of the page to the right side of the page?
The script which has been modified is as follows:
/* List all Bookmarks first then Page Numbers */
/* Recursively work through bookmark tree */
function PrintBookmarks(bm, nLevel)
    if (nLevel != 0) { // don't print the root
       bmReport.absIndent=bmTab*(nLevel-1);
bm.execute();
            bmReport.writeText(" "+bm.name);
bmReport.absIndent=(580);
bmReport.writeText(" Page "+(bm.doc.pageNum +1));
    if (bm.children != null)
          for (var i = 0; i < bm.children.length; i++)
            PrintBookmarks(bm.children[i], nLevel + 1);
bmTab = 20;
bmReport = new Report();
bmReport.size = 2;
bmReport.writeText(this.title);
bmReport.writeText(" ");
bmReport.size = 1.5;
bmReport.writeText("Listing of Bookmarks");
bmReport.writeText(" ");
bmReport.size = 1;
PrintBookmarks(this.bookmarkRoot, 0);
global.bmRep = bmReport; // make global
global.wrtDoc = app.setInterval(
    'try {'
    +'       reportDoc = global.bmRep.open("Listing of Bookmarks");'
    +'       console.println("Executed Report.open");'
    +'       app.clearInterval(global.wrtDoc);'
    +'       delete global.wrtDoc;'
    +'       console.println("Executed App.clearInterval");'
    +'       reportDoc.info.title = "Bookmark Listings";'
    +'       reportDoc.info.Author = "List Bookmark Sequence";'
    +'} catch (e) {console.println("Waiting...: " + e);}'
    , 100);

Aligning footnote numbers to the left

Hello,
I am currently in the process of designing the thesis of my sister. The text - imported from word - contains several footnotes. The problem is when I placed the word document the footnote reference numbers were automatically aligned to the right. My sister would prefer to have them on the left like it was in her word document.
How would I be able to change the footnote reference numbers from the right to the left side? (also see attached image, green circle).
Another question not directly related to InDesign but general page layout: is 2mm "minimum space before first footnote" enough in this type of publication or what is the general distance taken for this?
Thank you in advance

Perfect! That did the trick...How I didn't think of that..
Would you perhaps have any advice on the "minimum space before first footnote" ?
Thank you !

Decimal alignment in Numbers yet?

I was just wondering if Numbers had started offering a way to align decimal in the sheet.
I look around and did not see anything in the manual or online.
Thanks

Numbers has been able to do this, so far as I am aware, since day 1.
select the column(s) you want to format, then open the cells inspector (View > Show Inspector), select the Cells Inspector and change the format to "Currency", set the number of decimal places. Also make sure the column is RIGHT justified

Once more on right-aligning footnote numbers with GREP

For some jobs I want the footnote numbers in the notes to align on the period that I have IDCS4's Footnote Options add (along with an en-space) as the Separator between the note number and the text of the note. No big deal if I define the footnote paragraph style with an "Align to Decimal" tab and then insert that tab at the start of the note. I recently bumped into this thread from 2009 where RodneyA described this in more detail, and Eugene Tyson added a GREP search to automate adding the tab: replace (~F) with \t$1.
I cannot get this to work in IDCS4. Did it work in earlier versions? Earlier this year Jongware explained that GREP cannot replace a footnote marker, only look ahead or behind the marker to replace whatever. Unfortunately, in my footnotes there's nothing ahead of the footnote marker for GREP to replace until I manually put my tab there. Adding those tabs to hundreds of notes by hand isn't so bad (jumping with Ctrl + arrow keys), and ID's propensity for occasionally eating a note means I need to check them all anyway. But am I wrong in thinking that if I want to automate adding the tabs I'll need to do so via JSX?
Thanks,
David

David, when stating you cannot get something to work it's important you also tell why
But when I tried your "replace (~F) with \t$1" for myself it became real obvious straight away: the code ~F does not only indicate "the footnote reference number" but also the footnote itself in the text. So, while it works in the sense that you get a tab before the footnote number code, you get loads of extra tabs in your text as a bonus.
There are several ways to circumvent this. The most obvious is to limit the replace operation to just the paragraphs styled with your footnote style. If that's a unique one (mine usually is), it'll work straight away. That's Eugene's first answer in the previous thread -- possiblly you forgot to set this Paragraph style in the Find Format field.
Another way is to only add a tab when the footnote number code is at the start of a line:
^~F
replace with
\t$0
(You are correct in noticing the "lookbehind" trick cannot be reversed to a lookahead for just 'start of line followed by the footnote number code'. It's a Limitation of InDesign's particular flavor of GREP.)
This one may fail if you ever have a footnote at the start of a paragraph
Yet another way is to try to make use of the vertical position of the footnote number code. If your references are in superscript (which is fairly regular) and the numbers in the notes themselves are not (which they may or may not be), you can look for
~F (+ position: normal)
and replace with itself plus a tab before, as above. (A variant could be to use a character style for the superscripted references and look for [None] character style to pick up the ones inside the footnotes.)

How do I Right-align TOC numbers if they're not

Hello, i'm talking from Italy.
I've a little question about TOC.
I wrote my thesis for my degree, placing the TOC at page 5. Since this... no problems.
Right now i finished writing and wanted to update the TOC. But... surprise... the page numbers doesn't right align as i would!!!
I'd like to have this,
| Title ...................1 |
| Subtitle............2 |
| Subtitle............6 |
| Title..................19 |
| Subtitle..........22 |
( Even without dots if it's not possible. The numbers should be aligned but here you can't see this. )
But... i have this!!!
| Title 1 |
| Subtitle2 |
| Subtitle6 |
| Title19 |
| Subtitle22 |
it's such a DISASTER!
Can i solve this problem? My university requires page numbers.
Thank you.
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Select the TOC by clicking in it. It will help you if you have Show invisibles on.
Now you can align the number by pulling the small blue triangle on the ruler.
!http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/7861/tocp.jpg!
Now open the Inspector > T tab > Tabs > click on Leader button> choose leader

Right align page numbers that are to the left of TOC entries

I posted a similar question about a year ago that I believe Harbs or Peter answered, but darned if I can find the thread. At that time they provided a script that did a GREP search, finding a sentence that starts with a digit and replacing it with a tab. I still have the script, but for some reason it is not working correctly with my new TOC layout.It should insert a tab to the left of the page number (page numbers are to the left of the TOC entries), and force the numbers to right align so that a single digit page number right aligns with the right edge of a double-digit page number.
Find: ^(\d+)
Change to: \t$1
What happens in the new TOC is the script finds a digit and inserts a tab to the left of the page number. The page numbers move to the right, but they don't right align. They are further to the right, but they numbers themselves are still left aligned.
I'm mystified as to why the script doesn't work on this new layout. I'm using CS4 now, and it still works on the old layout. There is nothing terribly different about the new layout except that the column is much narrower, and there are several threaded colums in the TOC instead of one long column, and the chapter titles don't have page numbers (but all other entries do have page numbers.)

Peter,
Thanks for your reply. Between the page number and the entry is an en-space.
I started with these settings:
I then changed the left aligned tab to a right aligned tab:
But still no luck.

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Numbering Alignment not working?

Anyone else having this issue? I can't right align the numbers?

Same here
I was so frustrated! Even tried with CS4!
tomaxxi

How do I use align="right" for text in a dl environment?

I use a <dl> environment to control vertical line spacing extensively (thousands of pages). Here is the objective:
But I also need to have generation numbers, e.g. "2.2.1" right aligned on a defined width page. I have tried various ways of achieving this using <div>, <span>, etc. Each has unintended consequences. The above is created using <table> in the <dt> line. But W3C validator objects every time.
Here is my script:
Or, if this is easier to read:
<dt class="type_U_XXX"><table width="720" border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
    <td width="680">Johann Peter Bayer (*23.10.1716 Undenheim)</td>
    <td width="40" align="right">2.2.4</td>
</tr>
</table></dt>
<dd class="col_0">Taufpate war Johann Peter Cohn, Gau-Odernheim.</dd>
<dd class="col_0">Johann Peter Bayer war von 1751-1788 St.Albans-Hofmann in Undenheim. Er ist als "hervorragender und emsiger Mann" und als "der Hof-Peter" überliefert. Am 04.02.1744 heiratete er in Undenheim <i>Anna Catharina Dapper aus Sörgenloch</i>. Trauzeugen waren Joh. Mathäus Bayer und Joh. Peter Dapper.<br /><br /></dd>
<dt class="col_1">Kinder: (13)</dt>
<dt class="type_U_XXXsX"><table width="680" border="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
    <td width="640">Johann Mathäus Bayer (*03.04.1745, +02.10.1746 )</td>
    <td width="40" align="right">2.2.4/1</td>
</tr>
</table></dt>
<dd class="col_1">Taufpate war Joh. Mathäus Lahr.<br /><br /></dd>
How can I right-align the numbers in a <dl> environment? It has to be in the <dt> line, not the <dd>. Using the <dd> line indents the left margin, which is not acceptable.
Thanks for your help. Please be very explicit. Please show me the line or two of script that is needed, don't just say for example, use a <div>.

I love your use of the definition list However, nesting <table> in <dt> is obviously not good.
HTML
<dl>
        <dt>
            <div class="name">Johann Peter Bayer (*23.10.1716 Undenheim)</div>
            <div class="id">2.2.4</div>
        </dt>
        <dd>
            <p>Taufpate war Johann Peter Cohn, Gau-Odernheim.</p>
            <p>Johann Peter Bayer war von 1751-1788 St.Albans-Hofmann in Undenheim. Er ist als "hervorragender und emsiger Mann" und als "der Hof-Peter" überliefert. Am 04.02.1744 heiratete er in Undenheim <em>Anna Catharina Dapper aus Sörgenloch</em>. Trauzeugen waren Joh. Mathäus Bayer und Joh. Peter Dapper.</p>
        </dd>
        <dt>
            <div class="name">Johann Peter Bayer (*23.10.1716 Undenheim)</div>
            <div class="id">2.2.4</div>
        </dt>
        <dd>
            <p>Taufpate war Johann Peter Cohn, Gau-Odernheim.</p>
            <p>Johann Peter Bayer war von 1751-1788 St.Albans-Hofmann in Undenheim. Er ist als "hervorragender und emsiger Mann" und als "der Hof-Peter" überliefert. Am 04.02.1744 heiratete er in Undenheim <em>Anna Catharina Dapper aus Sörgenloch</em>. Trauzeugen waren Joh. Mathäus Bayer und Joh. Peter Dapper.</p>
        </dd>
</dl>
CSS
dl {
width: 720px;
dl > dt > div.name {
    float: left;
    width: 680px;
dl > dt > div.id {
    float: left;
    padding: 0 0 0 10px;
    width: 30px;
dl > dd {
    clear: left;
You may need to tweak the CSS a bit but you get the general idea.
Kenneth Kawamoto
http://www.materiaprima.co.uk/

Style Sheets: Retrofitting previously-numbered lists

Hello wonderful INDD community!
I have learned so much since my last visit here, and I want to say Thank you! You've helped me "up my game" with nested style sheets and grep!
Working on the same catalog project as I was discussing before, and I've run into this quandary:
This catalog has quite a lot of numbered lists, most of which were already numbered when I got them. I'm wanting to differentiate the numbers from the titles (which I've further differentiated from the descriptions using Nested Styles), but am having trouble deciding the best way to do it.
The reason I bring my woes here is because this group, I know, members here will help me find the BEST way to do it! Not just any ole way.
I sort of see two ways of approaching it:
Using GREP Styles to identify the item numbers and also to insert a second tab to allow me to right-align the numbers. The 1st part, I think I can do, the 2nd part kind of makes my head spin.
Converting these hand-typed numbered lists to INDD auto-numbered lists. The hurdle here, to me, is how to get rid of the debris of the hand-typed numbers in some easy automated way? This concept is kind of the reverse of INDD's "Convert Bullets and Numbering to Text" feature. A "Convert Text to Numbering" command.
Now, it's easy for me to believe that somebody here in this forum has a better idea. I just wanted to prove to you that I've done my homework. Hours of it, in fact.
Can peoples take a look at the attached image which attempts to illustrate what I'm after?
Thanks SO MUCH,
Mick

Howdy all--
Ok with some begrudgement, I have to say that technically this works.
It's kind of slow-going though..and it's not without anguish, which isn't an indictment of Jongware's implementation; probably more an indication of my ignorance.
What I'm doing is:
Highlighting a list
Styling it to a paragraph style that uses INDD's built in auto-numbering feature
Running Jongware's GREP pattern (thank you!) to get rid of the old hand-typed numbers
Placing the cursor in the middle of the first entry and right-clicking and selecting "Restart Numbering."
I know this isn't exactly what the Doctor ordered, Jongware, but I prefer this modified workflow because it kept me from needing to change the "find/change" box back and forth between two states (even if those two states were only the one format change). I was afraid that would start boggling my brain after doing it many dozens of times..
SO-- The thing that bugs me is step #4. I don't really understand the INDD behavior when it comes to auto-numbering. In the paragraph style I created (see screen cap), if I set it to "start at 1" with a series of items highlighted, it numbers them all "1". If I say "continue from previous number," it refers to some bit of previous numbering in the story and picks up from there. Hence step #4.
Anybody care to shed some light on INDD's kind of odd auto-numbering tendencies (or my ignorance?) :-)
thanks again,
Mick

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