Automated Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign
Nested Styles II: paragraphs
A course by Javier Alcaraz , Editorial and Typeface Designer
About the video: Nested Styles II: paragraphs
Overview
“This lesson is about how to create and work with nested paragraph styles. First, we will create character styles to nest; then, we will create a style of control that will serve to verify the operation of our format; and finally, we will see the options for sequencing styles with exercise files.”
In this video lesson Javier Alcaraz addresses the topic: Nested Styles II: paragraphs, which is part of the Domestika online course: Automated Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign. Learn advanced techniques for creating professional literary layouts.
Partial transcription of the video
“There are many situations in our work that can be both complex and tedious. For example, a dictionary. You have to always format the same pattern. One word, which is the term; then, its gender, its number or something of etymology; and then, his explanation. Each of those parts has a different style or format. Nested Styles will allow you to do immediately if the text, whatever it is, that exists or does not yet exist, meets that pattern so that is formatted automatically. In this lesson I'm going to show you how to find certain specific patterns in a content so that you can give a certain ...”
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Course summary for: Automated Editorial Design with Adobe InDesign
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Javier Alcaraz
A course by Javier Alcaraz
Javier Alcaraz is a graphic designer specializing in Typographic Design and Art Direction for Editorial Design. He began his design career for Argentina newspapers and worked on developing publications and institutional communication in Ecuador. In 2004, he left Argentina for Mexico, where he worked for important publishing houses like Grupo Media and Expansión.
In 2011, he founded elcerezo, a studio that works on editorial design, branding, and typeface design for clients in Latin America and Europe, including Google, the Mexican Ministry of Culture, TetraPack, and Forbes. He currently resides in Spain.
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