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• • September 24, 2012 at 8:08 am #63220
    Coreen Montagna

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    I'm trying to figure out if there is a way to search with GREP to find instances where a word is italicized, but the punctuation following it is not. I have a character style for italics. Example:

    “What?” <–so the “What portion is in italics with the character style applied, but the ?” is not. I'd like to be able to search a document (novel length) for anytime that the character style is applied but followed by a non-white space character that does NOT have it applied. Because in my house style for these books, the punctiation following a word should use the same formatting as the word itself. The problem typically arises with words followed by either a ! or ? as these are the most obvious discrepancies. Visually, it's harder to tell if a closing quote is italicized or not.

    I'm not proficient enough in GREP to figure this out, or to know for sure if it is possible. Any one?

  • September 24, 2012 at 8:45 am #63223
    Theunis De Jong

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    You cannot search for mixed attributes using GREP. The inverse might work, though: search for punctuation in Regular with 'nothing' (i.e., not-Regular) before it.

    Try this: search for

    (?<!.)[[:punct:]]

    with “Regular” in the Find Format style field.

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