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• • February 4, 2020 at 10:42 am #1227157
    Ryan Scheife

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    Hi all.

    I have a monumental task of weeding through thousands of instances of bracketed text to assure text that begins and ends in italics in this bracketed text is enclosed by italic brackets (and not roman). In some cases I need to do the opposite (assure beginning and closing brackets are styled in roman where starting or ending text enclosed are styled roman). Specifically:

    “When the enclosed material begins and ends in italic but contains roman text in between, italic enclosures may be used. If only one end of the enclosed material is italic, however, the parentheses or brackets should be roman.”

    I cannot find a way to search in my document roman brackets next to an italic character or numeral, or visa versa. Does anyone have any suggestions here?

    Thanks for any guidance. —Ryan

  • February 4, 2020 at 3:14 pm #14323143
    Brian Pifer

    Participant

    Disclaimer: GREP is not my strong suit, but I think this can be accomplished via script. The following will find all bracketed content, and compare the brackets to the first and last characters within the brackets to compare their applied fonts. Not sure if my app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat line will match exactly all the time — if you already have a good GREP you’re using, feel free to sub it in (add an additional escape backslash for the script purposes. I haven’t fully tested, but you can give it a shot.

    var doc = app.activeDocument;

    app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
    app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = “[(w*| *){1,}]”;
    var finds = doc.findGrep();

    for (var i = 0; i < finds.length; i++) {
    var firstBrack = finds[i].characters[0];
    var lastBrack = finds[i].characters[-1];
    var firstChar = finds[i].characters[1];
    var lastChar = finds[i].characters[-2];
    if (firstChar.appliedFont.fullName.toLowerCase().indexOf(“italic”) >= 0 && lastChar.appliedFont.fullName.toLowerCase().indexOf(“italic”) >= 0)
    {
    firstBrack.appliedFont = firstChar.appliedFont;
    lastBrack.appliedFont = firstChar.appliedFont;
    }
    else if (firstChar.appliedFont.fullName.toLowerCase().indexOf(“italic”) == -1 && lastChar.appliedFont.fullName.toLowerCase().indexOf(“italic”) == -1) {
    firstBrack.appliedFont = firstChar.appliedFont;
    lastBrack.appliedFont = firstChar.appliedFont;
    }
    }

    app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;
    app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;

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