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• • September 25, 2014 at 8:31 am #70759
    bt

    Member

    Hi, if anyone has the time, could you possibly help me out with GREP? I need something very simple: Find all text within parens, and apply italic attribute.

    That would be great, but there is a possible refinement that would also help.

    These strings between Parens also contain names styled with a character style for small caps that simply changes the font to an old-fashioned smallcaps format font. If possible, I would like text with this character style to be left alone – – that is, for no attempt to be made to italicize it.

    I would be hugely grateful for any possible help.

    Many thanks,

    Bill

  • September 25, 2014 at 9:45 am #70761
    Aaron Troia

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    You are going to need to run two Regex’s for what you are asking, as Character Styles over ride each other and there is no Grep for excluding Smallcaps. you might need to temporarily add something unique to one or both sides of the small caps so that you can identify the strings of Smallcaps in your Grep searches, and then strip them out when you’re done.

    Here is a Regex to change everything in parens to italic:
    Find What: (?<=\()(.+?)(?=\))
    Change to: $1
    Find Format: [Leave Blank]
    Change Format: Your italics character style

  • September 25, 2014 at 4:45 pm #70767
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Here’s a write-up of which styles override which:
    https://creativepro.com/when-character-styles-collide.php

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