Reply To: Excluding from a GREP style

Tom, basic html tags like em and strong should work… no?

My concern with your request is the word “sometimes” and the phrase “in certain cases.” GREP is a set of rules that always applies. But if you want a character style applied to all your parentheses, you can just type \( for one GREP style, and then do another GREP style right after it applying the same character style to \)

That just means “apply it to the left paren and then the right paren.” You need the backslash before the parenthesis because the ( is a reserved character, and the backslash “escapes” it.