Would be great to have a way of adding incremental values to properties in a character style.

In other words instead of setting a character style that has +20 tracking and is 9pt on 12pt leading, you would be able to set it so it is ++20 tracking (whatever the paragraph tracking is plus 20) and --1pt size (whatever the paragraph font size is minus 1pt) on --2pt leading (whatever the paragraph leading is minus 1pt) .

Percentages would also be great and even better if we can reference other properties (ie leading is 130% of font size).

Usage cases:
I often have to deal with Chinese text placed inline in English copy. This usually looks awful at the same font size, and usually the Chinese looks better either 1 or 2 pts smaller than the Latin font. Having the ability to make Chinese 1pt smaller than the English saves on stylesheets.

I also have to design stylesheets for Subs to use in InCopy on Headlines to fit them. Currently the 5 or 6 different headlines all have different tracking values and there is no way to create a universal "Reduce the tracking 5/1000em" and/or "Reduce the tracking 10/1000em". This leads to inevitable mistakes and ugly tracking.

Please eliminate the Basic Paragraph Style. Don’t just allow users to delete it (but if nothing else, at least do that). Remove the style from new documents and don’t have it in the panel by default.

The style is a trap. Users who edit the style or use the style and base other styles on Basic Paragraph usually fall into a trap when copying and pasting text between documents that have different definitions of the style. The text will paste in with different formatting that in the source document. When this happens there are usually one of two reactions: “How the heck did that happen?” or “Oh, silly me forgetting to never use that annoying feature.” but never “Oh good, that’s exactly what I expected.”

Professionals know to never use the style, never edit the style, and never base other styles on Basic paragraph. If you have a feature that professionals know to never use that is a very good clue that it is a bad feature and should be removed. Please do so.

Grep styles deserve to be used like any existing style.

This means:
1 - Having a panel where we can create/modify/ delete any grep style (similar use as the Character style panel)

2 - Having the Paraph.style/Grep styles section revamped.
There, a drop down list allows the user to select existing Grep styles (If any)

3 - a "+" button allows to add and implement some more Grep styles
This allows to use multiple grep styles

The added value is to create only once a list of grep style actions. They can then be connected to paragraph styles easily.

This need is coming from several issues that I'm am facing today:

• Paragraph styles that are already based on a specific paraph.style cannot be based on another paragraph style where the Grep style could be. Therefore, the grep styles actions have to be written down on all of them. (waste of productivity)




• Fonts almost never have all the bold/ italic/etc. properties. Therefore, depending on the font, we need to adjust the target of the modification, for the same words. Being able to duplicate/ modify a Grep style would be a huge save of time.

Please make it so that OpenType stylistic alternates can be accessed through paragraph and/or character styles. For instance, my OT font has an alternate form of capital W which I prefer to the default form. It is listed in the Glyphs panel as Stylistic Alternates (salt). However, there is no way to activate this alternate W without manually replacing all default capital Ws with the alternate form I prefer. And even when I do that, reapplying a Paragraph Style to any paragraph where I've changed the W will revert the W to the default. I would like to at least be able to create a GREP style which would automatically apply this stylistic alternate to every instance of "W".

We had to change the font we're using for a checkbox in one of our paragraph styles. We have it set up under Paragraph Style Options / Bullets and Numbering. To add a character you want to use for a bullet character, you click add. There is no way to sort glyphs (by math symbols, greek, etc.) in the next window, and there are no scroll buttons. You have to grab the handle on the screen and scroll, and it jumps so fast, you can't navigate from one screen to the next. It just took me 20 minutes to find the "LOWERED RIGHT DROP-SHADOWED RIGHT SQUARE" character for a check box. You can't copy it from another place and paste it in to this window. We use the feature a lot. We used to use Zaph Dingbats, but for some reason have had a lot of problems with the font lately, even after purchasing a new version. We searched many fonts to find this character available in a font all our users and translation agencies would have. (We translate our technical and sales documents to 12 other languages.) After trying to fix this style in all 12 languages, I would like to say - love the feature...do NOT love the interface. Is there a way this could work more like the glyph palette?

In previous versions of ID i've been able to select the pencil tool (with no document open) and set it to a specific stroke and color and every time I would then click on the pencil tool to draw, it would do so with those specifications. In the latest CC version, that feature seems to be gone and now I draw and THEN have to set a stroke and color, which really slows me down! Tell me I'm not crazy like the pompous people in the forum! :)

When I'm doing a layout and sending images out for color work, I can create a retouching layer and mark up all my requests.

I'm working on a huge training book with dozens of styles. I've stashed them in style groups, but it is still a chore, even inside a group, to scroll, scroll, scroll to try to find the style I need -- and it is also a chore to switch among the style groups themselves -- as many of the styles are used on every page due to the nature of the material. It would be SO VERY HELPFUL if one could color-code paragraph styles (a la the Layers palette) so that when there are this many styles, the ones a person needs can be spotted and accessed more quickly. I am in and out of the paragraph palette every 5-10 seconds, scrolling, scrolling, and it's driving me nuts.