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• • January 18, 2016 at 2:04 pm #80903
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hi,

    I’m looking for a way to apply a character style to all digits in a paragraph EXCEPT digits in the first sentence. I’m assuming I should use a GREP style, but I’m having trouble getting it to work. I tried (?<=\.)\d+ without success.

    Thanks in advance for your help!

    Best,
    Justin

  • January 18, 2016 at 6:16 pm #80907
    Peter Kahrel

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    You’ll have to do it in two steps (that is to say that that’s the only way I can get it to work):

    1. Apply the character style to all digits in the paragraph
    2. Apply the character style [None] to ^.+?\.

    If you want to do that in a GREP style, bear in mind that [None] doesn’t have the same effect as applying it normally, outside a GREP style: it does nothing at all. Create a character style Black, set its colour to Black and use it instead of [None].

    Peter

  • January 18, 2016 at 8:26 pm #80908
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I was about to write a possible answer, but then I saw who replied (Peter K) and laughed, thinking, OK, if The Master says it has to be done in 2 steps, then that’s good enough for me. :-)

  • January 27, 2016 at 8:14 pm #81175
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thank you! That seems to have done the trick.

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