There does not seem to be a way to activate the Japanese Paragraph composer in the English version of InDesign
I am an native English speaker and use InDesign primarily in English. I sometimes have projects in other languages; i actually read a fair bit of Japanese and noticed that the lines were breaking even wtih World-ready paragraph composer turned on. I then learned that InDesign has both Japanese paragraph and single-line composers, whhich appear to be accessible in PREFERENCES under Advanced Type, but this does not seem to do anything I need done with the text.
i was told I must install the Japanese language version of InDesign to apply this feature. It would be wonderful if that would work in the one version.
At least I can read enough Japanese to use the J-language edition, but I work in other languages i cannot read; if other languages have this issue, I hope there will be some good solutions for them, too!
Thank you.
Karis
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Uwe Laubender
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Nevertheless, the two Japanese paragraph composers should be available when one likes to create a new paragraph style. So I voted…
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Uwe Laubender
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Uwe Laubender
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Hi Karis,
there are several ways to use both Japanese Paragraph Composers in a "western" InDesign like the English one or even my German one.The easiest one is to apply it to selected text by a script written in ExtendScript (JavaScript). Both scripts work with InDesign CS6 version 8 and above.
Select some text and apply the Adobe Japanese Single-line Composer with this line of code:
app.selection[0].texts[0].composer = "$ID/HL Single J";
Select some text and apply the Adobe Japanese Paragraph Composer with this line of code:
app.selection[0].texts[0].composer = "$ID/HL Composer J";
When done create a new paragraph style from the selected text.
You'll see that one of the two Japanese Paragraph Composers are used with that style.Regards,
Uwe Laubender
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