Reply To: GREP search string to look for "incomplete" italics?

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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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