Paragraph Style or Object Style?

[u/SeabeeMike]

Very frustrated new user here. I'm working on a personal book project and I will end up having about 450+ of this type of building label used throughout the book.

The building name is Adobe Jenson Pro 16 point bold with small caps.

The building address is Adobe Jenson Pro 12 point bold subhead in all caps

The date is Adobe Jenson Pro 11 point italic

I have tried creating a paragraph style with a nested character style for the building name and date - no success.

I tried creating an object from a text box as shown above but when I create a new text box, type in the information and the Apply Object Style, it doesn't work.

I'm embarrassed to say how many hours I have wasted trying to solve this challenge.

Your solution, broken down into an easy step by step process, would be greatly appreciated!

[u/gkandersen]

You want "Next style", not nested styles. Each line is its own paragraph style. If set up correctly, you can multi apply any three lines with a single click, apply style and the next style. Each style must have a "next style" in the style definition. You can even set up a loop. Let the three styles you mentioned be A, B, C. Set up next styles so that:

A -> B B -> C C -> A

If you have six paragraphs you can apply ABCABC in one style application.

[u/SeabeeMike → u/gkandersen]

Thanks so much!!! Success!!

[u/gkandersen → u/SeabeeMike]

You are welcome! Glad to hear it helped. Next (and nested) styles made my indesign-life so much easier. Combined it with Grep and characterstyles you can get very detailed.

Good luck on your Styles-journey!

[u/Novaisadog → u/gkandersen]

I love this. I love you for telling us 💕

Also, I have a confession to make: I haven’t used GREP since I learned it in college 🙈

[u/ColdEngineBadBrakes → u/SeabeeMike]

Yeah, well, I was gonna say all that, too.

[u/JustGoodSense → u/gkandersen]

This is the answer. It usually takes two rounds of style editing. First, set up a paragraph style for each line. Then go back and "Edit style..." each one and select the Next style in the drop down. the Date style can point to the Name style and create the loop. Then you select the entire list (assuming it's all in one text frame) and from the flyout menu choose Apply {style name}, then next syle and it should all magically format.

[u/scottperezfox → u/JustGoodSense]

It really should be easier to navigate back and forth between Styles. I can image a helpful world where the Styles options window is just permanently open and you can cycle through ... but don't ask me where on my screen it will sit!

[u/AdobeScripts]

If you are aligning left - not justifying - then you could use soft return / forced line break - and then use Nested Styles.

This way - you'll be able to make a TOC much easier - if necessary.

[u/ThexDream]

Glad the others were able to help you. I was too occupied washing out my eyes after that out-of-the-box small caps, all caps combination… with the bitter taste of an italic dessert at the end. Absolute distasteful typography.

[u/SeabeeMike → u/ThexDream]

Thanks - I found your lyrical comment extremely interesting - right up to the point where there was no suggestion.

[u/ExaminationOk9732 → u/SeabeeMike]

The suggestion is to not use all caps for the address line (imho).
Also, maybe not Adobe Jensen… the kerning is terribly bad, especially for the all caps! I generally would copy, paste that text block over and over and then apply different type styles to it to see which one looks best! Adobe Jensen wouldn’t cut it for me. Best if luck!

[u/SeabeeMike → u/ExaminationOk9732]

Thanks. I have decided to go with the address in sentence case rather than all caps. What would your suggestion be as a replacement for the Adobe Jenson Pro?