Here's a nice simple one. When an author replaces a letter in a word inside a quote, they'll often surround the letter with brackets. Brackets won't automatically keep with connected characters in InDesign, however, so you'll end up with this nonsense:
A word as simple as it, when written as [i]t, will unfortunately break. No author likes seeing this, so it's something you have to fix. It's something I've manually fixed (and had to look for) forever, until I tried this tiny stupid GREP trick:
[image error] ](wildcard for any letter), and apply a character style with "no break" checked.
Keeping this inside your body paragraph style will result in exactly what you'd hope to see:
Since I figured this one out, it's been an automatic inclusion into almost all my paragraph styles.
Published on June 14, 2015 15:06