I had jotted down a memo about InDesign.
I use InDesign for some essay-like documents. I am quite content with it, though there are a few glitches. When I place some text, for example, some character styles are not recognized immediately. In my case, body text style is named Normal, then comes an italicized version of it named Emphatic. Emphatic just tells the program that the underlying font must be italicized (that is leave all fields blank except typeface). You can do this both in InDesign and NWP. So, if Normal is, say, Schneidler, Emphatic is Schneidler Italic, if Tiasco, Tiasco Italic. Now, when I place rtf text into an InDesign document with its own style definitions, Emphatic fails to inherit the font from the underlying paragraph. Supposing I have Schneidler in the rtf, and Bookman in InDesign, Emphatic is expected to be Bookman Italic. But for some reason Emphatic stays Schneidler Italic, whatever is the sorrounding paragraph font. When this happens I do the following: I open the Find/Replace window and change any occurrence of Normal into Normal. It sounds stupid, but it’s the only way – force the program to reapply the paragraph style.
Also I met with another glitch. When I place a document with indented headings, InDesign puts an arrow at paragraph start. A real arrow, Lucida Grande unicode 21E2, not a tab character. Like this:
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