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• GREP style - apply character style to the opening and closing parentheses surrounding a 0 (but not 0)

  Hello

  I'm relatively new to GREP style and will have to put in shape about 600 postcards containing various data (via the merger of data), including phone numbers. Consider the following data set:

  1. + 44 (0) 123467800

  2 (©) copyright

  3. (name of the program)

  I want to tell Indesign to stagger the opening and the closing parenthesis of the baseline (with a character style), but only the bracket that include a 0 and, possibly, without affecting the 0 value between them.

  Seems like an easy task, but it is impossible to find a solution. Could someone help?

  Thank you very much

  Antonio

  

• GREP style sheets styles vs

  I've had a lull at work and decided to work on my list and start learning the GREP so that I could use GREP styles.

  The first is a simple one: [[A - Z] [A - Z] \S+?] He finds something inside the brackets that begin with two capital letters. I know it works because I can find no "[MT2]" in find/replace.

  OK, so I try in a text of cs5 ID with my first GREP style. It fails to the vast majority of the time. So I try a lot of different things to see if I can find a model of what works and what does not. I tried just the local formatting of a solitary ' graf. I tried to make character and "stylesheets graf incorporate a GREP style with the new character style, for example"change color in green type".

  I've looked through the forums and can't see any others with my problem there must be something about me or my document. I used other documents to eliminate this variable. I went through tutorials and stuff to David Blatner and don't see anything I'm doing differently.

  When I format text to character and "graf stylesheet, it fails. BUT when I change the stylesheet of the text source "[None]" characters it works. I tried from text which is "[None]" and a ' graf normal style sheet, it works.

  But from text styled with "[None]" character and official "graf stylesheet with a GREP Style, it fails. But when I change the "[graf stylesheet to] [' standard paragraph]' it works."

  I'll try to find a model here, so to speak, and the only thing that has a chance to succeed attaches the stylesheet of character to 'None '. I don't see that anyone using GREP styles is having problems as I do.

  What do you I'm dominant? I spent today trying to find what works and does not work. As it is, I can't recommend it to my co-workers.

  Golden rule to apply styles is the Basic for all of paragraph formats should be defined in the paragraph style. If some bit of text should be in the format differnently then you apply a character style (or, if you must, a substitution of local formatting). With the nested Styles and GREP, ID has very powerful tools to apply character styles to text selected in the paragraph style definition. Most of the programs do not have this capacity.

  If you apply the syle of character as a nested or style may find/replace, or just GREP in manually by selecting the text and using the style? The answer will depend on a few variables. The particular string must ALWAYS have a particular attribute set, what happens? Find/replace or local selection is the way to go. Applied character styles this way will survive even if the underlying paragraph style is changed to match the style of character, then again changed. If the style should be applied to a string in a particular position in a paragraph, even if this position can move a bit, a nested style is probably the way to go. If you want to make changes to the text that corresponds to a particular model, whenever he falls, when the surrounding text is a particular style, a style of GREP is the answer.

  GREP styles are very powerful, but they also use a lot more in terms of resources that the application of a style of character using other methods. I've seen reoprts ID get bogged down by too many GREP styles.

• Trouble with Grep Styles

  I'm trying to set up a grep style in my paragraph styles.  I am wanting this to "BOLD" or chemicals that it will not be because of the () is there a way to do this "BOLD" in a grep style?

  any time you need a character that she also an operator in GREP, you can escape it by using-in front of her

  chemical\ (be)

• Point to add to the script or Grep Style?

  Hello

  Is it possible to add a hightlight to a script?  Basically, what I want to do is highlight the text and the tricky part is that the text changes size depending on the size of the file, we are working on that.  I want to highlight automatically the "FOR PROFESSIONAL USE ONLY" the way that we do now is to underscore that in the menu options underscore: say my font size is 8, leading 9.6 (these will always change).

  Weight: = 9.6

  Shift: = - 8*.33

  Color = yellow

  It's the way we do now.  Can it be scripted or Grep style which will automatically do this for certain lines of text only?  And no matter the font size calculate what he needs to do if its 2pt, 10pt 100 PT etc... It will highlight the text specified correctly?

  I hope it's possible...

  Thank you

  The lower one is best.

  I remove a bug and also if not 'what' is provided to the point function culminating and there is no entry in find it which is the find panel of text and text is selected, then this text is highlighted.

  An idea in the script is that a shortcut can be applied to it and it will get its information from the Panel of text search.

  So for now to change the answer to this one

  // Highlight function by Trevor
  // http://creative-scripts.com
  // Custom Scripts for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and a lot more
  // Beta Version 1
  // https://forums.adobe.com/message/8898663#8898663
  
  function highlight(what, color) {
      var range, s, doc;
      doc = app.properties.activeDocument;
      if (!doc) {
          return 'No Active Document';
      }
      s = app.selection && app.selection[0];
      range = (s && s.properties.underline !== undefined && s.characters.length) ? s : doc;
      app.doScript(f, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'Highlight Text');
  
      function f() {
          var finds, find, l, leading, pointSize, currentChangeProps;
          color = color || app.activeDocument.colors.itemByName('Yellow');
          // Store current find change text settings
          currentFindTextWhat = app.findTextPreferences.findWhat;
          currentChangeProps = app.changeTextPreferences.properties;
          what = what || currentFindTextWhat;
          if (what !== '') {
              // if no what is provided then the current entry in the find text panel will be used
              app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = what;
              app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = '';
              app.changeTextPreferences.underline = true;
              app.changeTextPreferences.underlineColor = color;
              finds = range.findText();
              range.changeText();
              l = finds.length;
              while (l--) {
                  find = finds[l];
                  leading = find.leading;
                  pointSize = find.pointSize;
                  leading = pointSize * find.autoLeading / 100;
                  find.underlineWeight = leading + 'pt'; // This is presuming that font and leading size is set to points!
                  find.underlineOffset = (pointSize - leading) * 1.5; // The 1.5 might need tweaking but seems to work well
              }
              app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = currentFindTextWhat;
              app.changeTextPreferences.properties = currentChangeProps;
          } else if (range !== app.activeDocument) {
              leading = range.leading;
              pointSize = range.pointSize;
              leading = pointSize * range.autoLeading / 100;
              range.underline = true;
              range.underlineColor = color;
              range.underlineWeight = leading + 'pt'; // This is presuming that font and leading size is set to points!
              range.underlineOffset = (pointSize - leading) * 1.5; // The 1.5 might need tweaking but seems to work well
          }
      }
  }
  
  /***************************************************************************************************************************************
  ** If text is selected then the "highlighting" is only applied within the selected text                                              **
  ** Otherwise the "highlighting" is applied within the whole document                                                                **
  ** One could change this to apply to what ever is selected in the Find text document if one wanted to                                **
  ** To highlight the word(s) in the find text panel just use highlight(); or highlight(undefined, app.activeDocument.swatches[5]);    **
  ** One can use highlight('Foo'); to highlight "foo" and ignore what's in the find text panel                                        **
  ** The formating / styles etc. for the find are taken from the find panel                                                            **
  ** If one provides a swatch as the second argument highlight(undefined, app.activeDocument.swatches[5]); that swatch will be used    **
  ** otherwise yellow will be used                                                                                                    **
  ** If one provides a swatch as the second argument highlight(undefined, app.activeDocument.swatches[5]); that swatch will be used    **
  ** If text is selected and what argument is given and the find what in the find panel is empty then the selected text is highlighted **
  **************************************************************************************************************************************/
  
  highlight();
  

• Temporarily stop the execution of grep styles

  Hello

  I still bring a book with lots of texts in three languages. I have several paragraph styles with up to 10 grep styles. So my short of very slow InDesign files, I think that cause grep styles in my paragraph style.

  My question is, is there a way to prevent the grep style to run in the paragraph style without removing them?

  Concerning

  Sascha

  Hi Sascha,

  Add an asterisk in front of the GREP expression: *.

  Uwe

• Find whole words with Grep Style

  Hi, need some help with this, he cannot know.

  I need to find some words in the style of a paragraph. I have created a character style to 'be bold' and you want to paraghaph style 'ainesosat' to use it when there are words in the paragraph.

  the words are for example

  Rasvaton maitojauhe

  Maitojauhe

  Juustojauhe

  Kerma

  VOI

  I know I can find these with this string:

  Rasvaton maitojauhe | Maitojauhe | Juustojauhe: Kerma. VOI

  but I don't want to find for example:

  Voimakassuolainen

  -includes "Voi".

  Also the words could begin with capital letter or not. I can of course dublicate chain and do both, with or without capital letters, but if there is a better solution for it, I'd be happy to hear...

  Tero

  1. add parentheses and word limits:

  \b(rasvaton maitojauhe | Maitojauhe | Juustojauhe | Kerma. \B voi)

  2. Add the flag "ignore case" at the beginning:

  (? i) \b(Rasvaton maitojauhe | Maitojauhe | Juustojauhe | Kerma. \B voi)

  See InDesign help | Find/replace for GREP options. You can use almost all the search commands in a GREP style, but does not replace those. ('Almost', because a GREP style, by definition, is limited to a single paragraph to work, and tempting to cross paragraphs automatically him will fail.)

• Grep style short (non-greedy) modifier ignored

  I'm looking for confirmation of a possible bug I've had problems with InDesign version 5.5 upwards through the DC 10.0.0.70.

  What I'm trying to do is apply a character by a rule of grep style in a paragraph style that matches all through the first colon in a block of text. The goal is to make this text bold. My rule of grep is

  .+?:

  which means corresponds to one or more of any character, the shortest correspondence (non-gourmand in the terminology of grep), followed by two points. But the non-greedy modifier is ignored and it does match the text up to the last two points.

  Here is a screenshot.

  

  I came up with a work around, but it would be nice to make it work properly. I will report it as a bug if others confirm having the same problem. Thank you.

  It works just like it is supposed to - you aren't limited to the first occurrence of the colon, so it matches the first string through the first colon, then matches the following string until the second colon and so on.

  If you want to apply from the beginning of the paragraph to the first two points, you can use ^. + ? :, but it would be much simpler and more effective to use regular nested style through two points 1.

• Loss of the GREP styles

  I had created a whole list of GREP-styles and suddenly I realize that they're all gone. Maybe it happened during the synchronization of the settings, either by installing Indesign 2014. Anyone know where the GREP styles created by the user are stored? I could try to get through my time Machine.

  GREP styles are the attributes at the level of the document that you should be able to load from an earlier document. Saved grep queries to search for? Change, however, are stored in the user preferences. You should find a folder named queries to search - replace in your profile or library in the same way where the preferences InDesign Defaults file is stored for each version. You can copy the entire folder to a new version, or only selected queries. For more information, see replace your preferences

• GREP style allows text in square brackets

  I'm just starting to understand some ways that I can use GREP in the messy confusion of the documents that I have to work here, so patient with me...

  We have a load of technical writers here who do not necessarily have a lot of experience InDesign, but be used to enter text. A text must be "BOLD" to attract the attention of the end user, so I thought I could use GREPs for apply a bold style to certain words and phrases that occur in any of the documents. Such a forum is intended for users to renew the clips or bolts or similar, so I did what I think is a GREP which finds 'renew' and applies to every word between it and a return or a period (but exclude the word "renewed", because the other permutations that follows):

  renew (?.) Ed.*?). +(\.| \r)

  That works very well in most places. But I fell on cases where there is an image reference in parentheses after the occurrences of 'renew' in places (such as "you must renew the clips (see figure 6)'") and I would like to exclude the media and their content of style. But as a beginner, I had a little if bogged down hit brick walls trying to find ways to do it. Can anyone offer a suggestion?

  Thanks for any help.

  Doug, you use GREP (to find and replace) or GREP Styles? (by your description of what it does)

  If GREP Styles:

  1 no need to use (\. | \r) at the end GREP Styles automatically stop at the end of each paragraph.

  2. no need to use (?) Ed.*?) a simple (?.) ED) is enough here, as long as this corresponds to what didn't really matter if / what follows.

  Try it shorter:

  renew (?.) ED) [^ ()] +

  -This text makes bold to 'renew' and the end of the paragraph * or * up to the first parenthesis.

• GREP Style question

  I need help with a formula of GREP styles.

  My customer needs to put in the form of specific letters within a word in all uses, so my solution is to character styles applied via the number styles, GREP styles. I don't know the formula to use, however.

  Say the word is "ThisBrand", and character styles should be applied to the "s", "B" "a" and "n". Do you know that can GREP I use in the paragraph style?

  Hello pariah Burke,

  You want to use a grep style (s) only on the word Thisbrand?

  Try this:

  

• Delicate required... GREP style using a subexpression not staining to find space characters

  I have the section headers in my paper which have a paragraph that are applied to their style. They are always of the form \d\.\d\.\d\.\d(\t) follow in a short sentence of the text. For example:

  5.2.2.1 the rain in Spain falls gently on the crane

  I'm looking for a style GREP can highlight the character of each word with a character style, but not the spaces between words. It seems to imply nested iterations which I do not know how to do, including an expression not staining. Well, it isn't working how I think it should...

  5.2.2.1 the rain in Spain falls gently on the crane

  
  
  I think that this style of GREP should get it: (? < = \t) ((\S) +(?:\ s)) + positive looks on the tab between the last digit of the section number and the first word, but the hair subexpressions are not spaces to underscores, instead, I find myself with all the head text highlights as follows:

  
  

  5.2.2.1 the rain in Spain falls gently on the crane

  "Nonmarquantes" subexpressions mean nothing to InDesign; You can only use in search operations and replace GREP.

  There may be a single GREP (complicated) style that works, but it might be easier to point out everything and then apply a second GREP style that takes away the underlining of your spaces.

• Grep styles and chips

  Is it possible to use GREP styles to insert chips on text once a specific title was detected?

  Working on a brochure where many pages will have a section of features, so I am reluctant to overide manually paragraph styles. The "FEATURES:" topic will always remain the same, the text in bullet points will change.

  For the moment, I have the diagram below...

  FEATURES:

  Test1

  test2

  test3

  test4
  

  What I hope to get is...

  FEATURES:

  • Test1
  • test2
  • test3
  • test4

  
  

  I have not used before GREP styles, but look around him seems the most obvious function to use, so if anyone has another solution would be great.

  Heading should be a paragraph on his own style.

  Use a hard return not a soft return for a new paragraph http://indesignsecrets.com/dos-and-donts-of-text-in-indesign.php

  Ball should be a separate paragraph style.

  Apply this style to only to bullets

  Set a Style of character for your bullets, which can be applied by the bullet paragraph style.

• Questions to copy text, including GREP styles

  Hello.

  I have a block of text, which contains text formatted with styles, and a particular style by contains a GREP style, making a certain word "BOLD" and colored.

  When I copy this document to a new document that does not contain the styles, paragraph styles are made, but the character GREP style is not fired.

  If the character style in the receiving document, then all is good.

  Is this normal? I was expecting the character style that is attached to the paragraph style to be included automatically in the target document.

  Is there a way to get around this? I want to make it as perfect as possible, but for now I need to make sure that I have loaded before as I have paste the character style.

  See you soon

  
  Roy

  It should not. Try trashing the prefs - see replace your preferences

• GREP styles - excluding whole words

  A project of datamerge we were experimenting GREP styles to see if we can get the text to change the names automatically.

  We basically data that came with "Firstname Lastname" in a few places. In only one of the occurrences we want to remove 'Lastname' then thought we would experience a GREP style for this. We use a character with a fill of none style to achieve.

  So we have "Dear Firstname Lastname," and you want to make a style of GREP that is just "Lastname", but leaves the "Dear" and "First name" single. Targeting "Dear" and "First name" with a GREP style was easy. "Dear\s\S +" is "Dear" followed by a space, followed by anything that is not a space until it reaches the next space. However, applying the same logic to exclude it was not so easy.

  We tried a postanalyse to say look for "Dear" followed of a Word and exclude them, then apply the style to the rest of the line. We started with (? < = expensive) \S+ who worked to exclude just 'Dear' and apply the style to the rest of the line, but when we added the rest of the expression to create (? < = Dear\s\S +) we got nothing? We were able to get (? < = Dear\s\S) \D+ to work. It excluded "Dear", more space and the first letter of "Lastname", but we can't seem to find a combination that will include the whole second word ("Firstname").

  Maybe it's that there is an even easier way to do that simply target the first two words of a paragraph, but we have not been able to find a way to do either. Maybe we're just too ask many GREP styles and it is not possible... but we approach!

  I know it's probably easier to address this issue in the data by doing a new field in advance, but we don't have that luxury this time.

  Thanks for the pointers that anyone may be able to give.

  Steve

  OK, I guess that I do not take your sense of the first time through. Can I use the deprivation of sleep as an excuse?

  Of course, that's just my opinion, but I think that if there are some styles to make, either nested or GREP, we should limit the paragraph style so that those paragraphs that would be greetings, even if it means using a realtionship of style based on the isolate. Given the description of the problem where the paragraphs seem to begin with 'Dear', I'd be willing to bet that there no cases of paragraphs in this position in the merger that doesn't start like that.

  And I really don't like your solution.