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• • March 1, 2016 at 2:58 pm #82452
    Douglas Wade

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    I use grep in my general body text to emphasize names in bold. It works great and acts as name spelling checker. Wonderful! I want to expand it to include couples.

    Paul and Sue Craft

    I want “Paul” and the name “Sue Craft” with emphasis of bold, but not the “and”. I do not want the stand alone name “Paul” added to the grep as a stand alone name. Because first names are used often in the articles and do not want every occurrence to be bold.

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  • March 1, 2016 at 5:04 pm #82482
    Peter Kahrel

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    Assuming that two consecutive words with initial capitals are names, you can do what you want with two GREP expressions:

    1. ‘Paul’ followed by and and another name: \u+(?=\u+\u)

    This one reads ‘find a name \u+ followed by (?= a space and a name \u+ followed by a space and a name.

    2. Then find Sue Craft: \u+\u+

    The naive assumption is that a name is matched by an upper-case letter followed by any lower-case letters, which is too simple, so you’ll have to refine the pattern to include double-barrelled names, prefixes, etc.

    Peter

  • March 1, 2016 at 6:10 pm #82485
    Douglas Wade

    Member

    thank you so much… Off to incorporate it.

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