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• • November 6, 2013 at 11:26 pm #66115
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hi

    I am still new at GREP Styles. I am able to create simple ones but I am stumped at how to address a combination of dates and event names. I am including three examples below. I do have Paragraph and Characters styles set up. The area I would like to effect the change is in all caps. I am trying to add a bold style only to the dates and the title of the event with out changing the rest of the information.

    I started of with this GREP Style:

    \d{1,2}\d{1,2}|\d\-?|\u

    It is bolding the dates and the name of the event. But it’s not bolding the small dash between events that have a beginning and end dates or the en dash. It is randomly bolding other numbers and capital letters that it should not. Very frustrating. Any ideas how to fix this?

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  • November 7, 2013 at 12:51 pm #66119
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    I have to admit, I don’t do much so far as GREP, but I’ve worked on lists such as these.

    Normally I nest the character style sheets.

    For the first one (the date), you can nest your character style through the em dash.

    The second nested character style could then be applied through the period and exclamation point (you can type both of those into the through field).

    I’m assuming that your paragraph style is the plain body text.

  • November 11, 2013 at 10:24 pm #66153
    Alvin Leu

    Member

    you could use this .. (you make need to replace the “~_” with indesign’s flyout em dash [pressing the @ thing] )

    ^.+(?=~_)

    Just make sure you use of Em dash is unique to the dates..

    • November 11, 2013 at 11:04 pm #66155
      Anonymous

      Inactive

      Thanks for the suggestion but ^.+(?=~_) only bolds the date at the beginning of each listing. I want to include the information that is in all caps as well. Someone suggested ^.+?[.!] by targeting the punctuations but not all of the listing will take advantage of that.

      Is there a way to tell it to pay attention to only words that are in all caps at the beginning of the listing and ignore words that are title case?

      Also, if I wanted to create a GREP style to seek out carriage returns, how would that be expressed? I tried \r but it will only work as search and replace function but not as a GREP style.

  • November 12, 2013 at 12:41 am #66156
    Alvin Leu

    Member

    how about this ?

    ^.+~_(\u+)+(\u+.)

  • November 12, 2013 at 7:03 am #66157
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    I tried that one, no changes were made. I came up with this one ^.+(\u+)+\u+

    it almost works, but the only problem is that if there happens to be a punctuation at the end of the last word that is all caps, no style is applied.

  • November 12, 2013 at 6:41 pm #66177
    Alvin Leu

    Member

    ^.+(\u+)+\u++\u+.

    like this ?

  • December 3, 2013 at 12:35 pm #66327
    Dennis Griffin

    Member

    Carlton Chin?

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  • December 2, 2014 at 11:15 pm #71997
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hey Dennis,

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  • December 3, 2014 at 3:03 am #71998
    Allan Shearer

    Participant

    Hi Carlton

    This seems to work for me:

    .?(?!\u)

    Let me know if it works well for you.

    Yours,

    Allan

  • December 3, 2014 at 5:35 am #71999
    Allan Shearer

    Participant

    Slight correction:

    .?(?!\u*+)

    So, How does this work?

    Well … rather than looking at what you’re trying to apply Bold to … look at what we’re NOT trying to apply Bold to! Huh!? :)

    The magic is in something called a “Negative Lookahead”. That part of the code is: (?!) [opens with (?! and closes with ) … and whatever is in-between is what you’re looking for]

    Thus, with this string: .?(?!\u*+) we’re saying:

    1. Look for “Any Character” “Zero or One” times: .?
    2. WHICH IS FOLLOWED BY “Zero or More” “Any Uppercase Letter”: \u*
    3. and “One or More” “Any Lowercase Letter”: +
    4. BUT, ONLY apply the Bold to whatever is found UP TO and NOT INCLUDING what is found inside the Negative Lookahead (?!)
    5. So … to accomplish No. 4 above, we wrap No. 2 and No. 3 inside No. 4 … and we get: (?!\u*+)
    6. Take No. 1 and No. 5 above and write them together: .?(?!\u*+)

    The Negative Lookahead is w-a-y cool. It allows you to ‘look ahead’ when searching for something with the intent of NOT (negative) applying whatever Character Style to this part that is found.

    Sounds VERY confusing, I know … but … it works. :)

    Hope this helps. :)

    Allan

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