Verse number get squeezed with text when shrinking

Question

I am typesetting a Diglot where I use two different scripts (Roman script and Meitei script). When I use the shrink button in PA to shrink text (paragraph) in the Meitei script all the verses within the paragraph get squeezed with the text. That doesn’t happen in the Roman script.

What could be the problem and what is the solution? I need help.

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Answer 1

Greetings, TSNgaihte,

Did you report the problem? It definitely is a bug that needs fixing for everyone. It is best if you do so, so that the developer and track it down properly. The problem is that Publishing Assistant is applying a tracking attribute to these InDesign character styles: v v1 vsp and v1sp. I wouldn’t be surprised if it were also applying tracking to the cnum and cnumEndSpace character styles as well, but I can’t tell from your screenshot. Of course, in a diglot, you will have two sets of character styles, in order to differentiate between the primary and secondary text styles. So, it should be something like diglot_v, or v_diglot. You will be able to tell by putting your text tool cursor in the text at that point and looking at the character style panel, which will highlight it.

Tracking is controlled manually with the control panel here:

This is informative, but you don’t want to manually fix these, you want to force InDesign to remove the tracking override that PA applied from all of the text with the character styles I listed (without hurting the tracking on the rest of the text which is beneficial. I had a more difficult way to tell you to do this but just searched AGAIN on how to fix this problem and found a better solution. Here is the link: https://www.nobledesktop.com/learn/indesign/fix-style-override . You will need to do this with every style I listed above, but I’ll walk you through it with the v characters style (yours may be the v_diglot style).

Comments

Yes Shegnada, I sent the problem report in PA as well.

Answer 2

I find that the email forum removed my actual final instructions, for the previous email. I’m not sure why, but here they are again…
1 Select Text with just the v character style and verify the tracking used (in my picture below, it is -100)
2 Edit the v character style and make sure the preview button is ticked.
3 Change the style to match that WRONG tracking setting. E.g., -100.
4 Even without closing the edit style window, now change the tracking back to its original setting (which I presume was zero).
5 You should actually see the change happen in your text since you have preview on.
6 Click OK.

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Shegnada:

I find that the email forum removed my actual final instructions, for the previous email. I’m not sure why, but here they are again…
1 Select Text with just the v character style and verify the tracking used (in my picture below, it is -100)
2 Edit the v character style and make sure the preview button is ticked.
3 Change the style to match that WRONG tracking setting. E.g., -100.
4 Even without closing the edit style window, now change the tracking back to its original setting (which I presume was zero).
5 You should actually see the change happen in your text since you have preview on.
6 Click OK.

Hello Shegnada, I tried all these steps but looks like it doesn’t solve the problem. I am not sure how to work around to solve the issue now. Need more help.