[amyg]

I also apologize for the off-topic post. This is in response to the post above:

Maybe what makes InDesign so ideal for me is that I (a) already have it so it doesn't cost me "hundreds of dollars" and (b) must do a print edition of almost every book I do anyway so I need to set them up in a page layout program to get the professional level typography I need.

I don't "hack" InDesign to get it to do what I want but I do use a text editor when I'm all done to tweak the code. InDesign gets me 90% of the way there. It really speeds up the process.

You do not need to pay for scripts to do regex S&R. InDesign has it built in. Not sure what you are talking about there.

I've never bought a script for InDesign. There are hundreds of free ones out there and new ones popping up all the time to automate various processes. There are even a few people on forums that write custom ones for other users. It's a great community out there.