Hello everyone,
One of the formatting rules in EN removes punctuation, spaces and paragraph ends before a closing parenthesis or bracket. This is obviously sensible but as I am now working with old/rare books and need to include collation in a custom field, that behaviour causes some inconvenience to me, as one of the common signatures for front matter quires is “):(” and thus the field starts with a closing parenthesis.
Explaining it briefly, I keep the pagination formula in Pages and collation formula in Section, e.g.:
[8], 1-71, [1 blank] (80 pag.)
):(1, A1-I4 (40 fol.)
and then insert in a style:
Pages
Section
When the Section field starts with “):(”, the result is the contents of both fields in one line without a space between.
[8], 1-71, [1 blank] (80 pag.)):(1, A1-I4 (40 fol.)
If I insert a leading text in the style, with a colon and a space:
Pages
Collation: Section
the output appears on two lines (as expected) but without the colon and space:
[8], 1-71, [1 blank] (80 pag.)
Collation):(1, A1-I4 (40 fol.)
A “brute and crude” way around this would be to insert a different character before the collation formula in the field and remove it automatically in the final formatted text. But maybe there is a trick to make EN keep any character before opening parenthesis/bracket?
Thanks for any suggestions – Rafal