GREP styles - excluding whole words

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• GREP style - applies to some extent

  Hello

  We run a catalog with products that are often part of their range excluded, and the style for the product descriptions is to have everything after the word "exclude" in italics.

  We use a GREP style Excludes(.+\n) *. + \r to apply the italic word "exclude" from, and it works fine.

  For example, we can have a description like "company name cheese slices 250 g slices of low fat does not include", so our GREP style applies the italic style on just "excludes Low Fat slices '."

  A new situation happened where there is perhaps now some content that appear after the text "excludes" where we do not want the italic style applied. The new text will be always start with a dollar sign, but I can't work on how stop style GREP right here.

  So the description can now be "company name cheese 250 g sliced Exclut Low Fat slices $1.50 each or'.»» "We want the ' excludes Low Fat slices" to be picked up and italic with the GREP style, but don't want the ' $1.50 each or "at the end to be affected. We want to stay in the original style, unitalicised.

  I guess it's a matter of telling the GREP style to arrest whenever he meets a "$" after "does not understand", but I can't get out.

  Is it possible to do?

  Thank you

  Steve

  Is this the first time that appears a $? If If you can use a second GREP style to apply [no style] to the $ and following.

• 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.)

• Capitalize the first (whole) words in a sentence using GREP

  Hey all,.

  I came across a problem. Right now I'm working with a huge amount of text where I need to capitalize whole words.
  Thus, for example, I have a phrase Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, adipiscing elit computer.
  I want to be able to change it to LOREM IPSUM dolor sit amet, adipiscing elit 195kgs. or LOREM IPSIM DOLOR sit amet, adipiscing elit 195kgs. etc. (words capitalized 1-5)

  I tried to use styles of character for that matter, but it takes a lot of time and a lot of manual work. Is there a faster way to do it?
  
  
  Thanks for all the help!

  If the number of words is compatible, you can make using a nested character style in the paragraph style, but if it's sometimes a single word, sometimes more, so it is impossible to automate in a paragraph style without some other trigger to inidcate where all caps should be completed.

• 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();
  

• 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.

• Can character or paragraph automatically apply a style to recurring words in a document?

  Can you character style or paragraph search for recurring words in a document and automatically apply a style? For example to make some "BOLD" words that appear several times in a document? To help Windows and must currently Adobe InDesign C.

  You can add a GREP style to a paragraph style to apply a character style to any match for your GREP expression, which may be your Word.

• How to create an InDesign Grep Expression of specific words

  I have a long list of wishes of congratulations following a certain rhythm. How can I create a style of grep with the following sequence:

  Congratulations to [name] for...

  • The first two words of the paragraph are always: congratulations to
  • Followed by: name
  • Followed by: to... (then continue with the rest of the info)

  There is a style of general paragraph to paragraph, which we will call this 'body '. A character style, let's call 'fat', should be applied to the first word, then spread the word "to", apply the character 'fat' new style name (however that may be long) and stop at the word 'on '. Remember that the word "to" is mentioned again later on, so I would not use an expression with the words 'to', unless that can be specified only in the first instance.

  I am new to GREP, but have found so far that what follows will give me the style applied to the first word characters: ^ congratulations

  Thank you in advance to those who can help me here.

  In your GREP style in the paragraph style

  (?<=Congratulations to).+?(?="">

• 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

• About GREP Style (2)

  Hello

  Imagine the following line and how I want to treat:

  "It is on the left side a bwatertiful blEU House with pink you'llow doors and windows. On the right side, we find a beautiful green horse black stIArs and a pue roof rpl! »

  What I mean: some words where the vowels are in bold, somewhere the consonants are in bold, but you can not systematize it.

  In this case, a way to speed up the process to deal with every word? Thanks in advance!

  Piece of cake. He needs 2 character styles (well, one if you want everything is the same: "BOLD") and 2 styles GREP, as well as two invisible characters that you can easily insert without interrupting the flow of regular text. I used "End nested Style" (~ h) and "Non-Joiner Invisible" (~ d) here. the two have no default keyboard shortcut, but those are easily added if you do a lot of them.

  GREP Style 1: [aeiou](?=\w*~h)

  GREP Style 2: [bcdfghj-np-twxyz](?=\w*~j)

  ... I wonder how correct it is to insert 'y' is the consonant or a vowel list. It is not a vowel in "yellow" is? If there is something simple, such as "It's a consonant followed or preceded by a vowel", you can add a style fat isn't (or in my example is not highlighted, by cutting the underscore) for

  (?<>

  (Just thought of this after you have created the image below. He works for switching * off * for vowels, but not for * on * for consonants. Maybe that has need of a 4th GREP).

  

• 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.

• 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

• Beginner GREP style: matches a sentence

  Hello

  I am learning all the wonderful types of styles available in InDesign for a project I'm working on that. I use InDesign CS5. I have a fundamentally just character style characters become smallcaps. I want to use this character as a GREP style style in a paragraph style.

  In the paragraph, if there are strings that match "mm" or "ct" or "ct tw", then use this style of character smallcaps.

  I had the 'Text' field to say: (mm | TB | tw).

  The problem is that I have words like "twin" in the paragraph that I don't want small caps have an impact, so I want to say something like (mm | TB | ct tw), but it does not work.

  I know I can just do a second GREP style for 'ct tw', but I hope there's a way to do it in a single statement. I'm sure that it is a very simple syntax, but I'm completely new to GREP, so pointers will be greatly appreciated!

  Thank you!

  In the biz of jewelry, are we?  I think that this expression should work: \b(tw|mm|ct)\b (feel free to change the order in parentheses). the \b is a word boundary, so it will match only if there is no other character on each side.

• GREP style: Find all the letters between

  I am trying to create a GREP style to deal with a signature of two lines like this:

  -Name of the author,

  Source cited

  I want the name of the author to be caps/sc and the font that I use has an established expert, so I need to replace only the lowercase characters of the name of the author with the sc. character style

  So far, what I did is creat a character style that is defined as the Roman. I then to my grep styles:

  

  The italic style applies to the 2nd line (after a forced line break) very well.

  However, I can't do it sc style to apply to my lc between the em dash characters and the comma. I can get the sc to be applied to the whole line, if I use '. ' for any character, but "\l" does nothing for me...

  Someone at - it advice?

  Thank you

  Chris

  Thanks for the help. You led me in the right direction.

  I was doing too complicated and I still don't have a firm grasp on what GREP may or may not do.

  I solved the problem with GREP styles:

  

  The reason that I can't apply sc for the first line is because the font I'm using is old and includes a set of expert. In police expertise, there are only small capitals. Strikes in uppercase are reserved for the factions, currency symbols and other glyphs not standards.

  Best,

  Chris