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March 17, 2010 at 7:23 am #52190
Theunis De Jong
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Not possible … GREP styles only work on “real” text. Internally, a text variable is represented by one single (albeit wide) character.

It's the same as with Initial Caps and Nested Styles — these also “see” an entire variable as a single character. It's also the reason that automatic headers run amok when they're too wide for their own frame.

I wonder if this got solved in CS5.

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