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• • August 6, 2015 at 8:36 am #77164
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    I am converting several cookbooks from Word to epub, and I am bringing all of the data into InDesign. I want to apply bullets to all of the ingredients lists (which the authors did not do beforehand).

    So I have created a paragraph style for “Ingredients”. This is then followed by the ingredient list, and I created a paragraph style for it called “Ingredient List”. Immediately after the ingredient list is the “Instructions” set of text.

    How can I tell it to find all of the text between Paragraph Style “Ingredients” and Paragraph Style “Instructions” and make it Paragraph Style “Ingredient List”?

    TIA.

  • August 6, 2015 at 9:50 am #77168
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Sorry, there’s no easy way to do that built in to InDesign. I generally recommend assigning paragraph styles and doing clean up in Word before placing into InDesign.

  • August 6, 2015 at 9:57 am #77170
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thank you for your fast response. I appreciate all you do to make this site so awesome. And at least now I what I can’t do and can now go focus on what I can do, lol. I love the GREP utility.

  • August 6, 2015 at 6:07 pm #77179
    Ariel Walden

    Member

    This might help:

    Change Consecutive Paragraphs

  • August 11, 2015 at 11:26 am #77231
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thanks, Ariel.

    Would this work for multiple paragraphs between paragraph styles? Like for the cookbooks, I will have the following (^b stands for standard carriage return)

    Ingredients (^b) (Paragraph Style applied)

    ingredient 1(^b)
    ingredient 2(^b)
    ingredient 3(^b)

    Directions(^b) (Paragraph Style applied)

    So I would need my “ingredient list” paragraph style applied to all three lines between “ingredients” and “directions”.

    Thanks

  • August 14, 2015 at 4:25 am #77312
    Masood Ahmad

    Participant

    Is there any specific pattern of the Ingredients List? It might help to understand the text and discover something for you.

  • March 24, 2016 at 7:06 am #83362
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    There is never a pattern, since some recipes call for 10 ingredients and some call for 5. The only pattern is that the word “Ingredients” comes before the Ingredient list starts and then “Directions”.

    Ingredients (paragraph style X)

    Ing. #1
    Ing. #2
    Ing. #3

    Directions (paragraph style)

  • March 26, 2016 at 4:21 am #83416
    Peter Kahrel

    Participant

    A GREP expression can match things in one style only: you can’t specify different styles for a search. But if your ingredients lists are always preceded by the word ‘Ingredients’ and followed by the word ‘Directions’, then you can use this GREP to apply your ingredients style:

    Find what: (?s)(?<=Ingredients\r).+?(?=\rDirections)
    Change to: <Leave empty>
    Change format: <ingredients style>

    (?s) // Consider the text as a single line so that . matches \r
    (?<=Ingredients\r) // Match Ingredients and the following return
    .+? // Math up to . . .
    (?=\rDirections) // a return followed by Directions

    This expression matches any paragraphs between Ingredients and Directions. The \r characters (paragraph breaks) must be part of the lookaround to avoid applying the ingredients paragraph style to the Ingredients and Directions headings.

    Peter

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