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• • August 17, 2011 at 12:39 pm #60313
    SteveD

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    Is is possible to delete or change characters or text in a GREP style such as when a new line character (soft return) is encountered it is replaced with a space or tab etc? Or is that only possible using GREP in Find/Change?

    Example:

    Chapter 1
    How I bought two tons of mustard from the Govenor

    Chapter 1 has a new line character that separates it from the chapter title. If I want to grab that text when creating a TOC it also grabs the new line character. It would be nice for the TOC style that is applied to the text in the TOC to replace the new line character with a tab to read like this

    Chapter 1 How I bought two tons of mustard from the Govenor

    I think it may not be possible to do that in a GREP style and have not found a way to do this but that may mean it is possible and I just haven't discovered a way to do it.

    So I'm looking for some confirmation.

  • August 17, 2011 at 3:34 pm #60316
    Anonymous

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    No – grep styles cannot add or remove text. It can only search for patterns of text and apply a character style to it.

    For the TOC though all you have to do is search for ^(Chapters+d+)r and replace it with $1t or something similar.

  • August 18, 2011 at 6:36 am #60324
    SteveD

    Member

    Thanks for the reply. I was afraid that was the case so thanks for confirming that to me.

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