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• • December 14, 2016 at 2:51 pm #90524
    Jean Ayotte

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    I tried this morning to edit my custom FindChangeList to add some nonbreaking spaces after some French abbreviations.

    This works well:
    grep {findWhat:”(?<=Mme)>s”} {changeTo:”~S”}

    But I am unable to do the same for “M.” (French equivalent of Mr)

    I have tried {findWhat:”(?<=M.)>s”} (double escape before period), {findWhat:”(?<=M\.)>s”} (single escape) and {findWhat:”(?<=M[.])>s”} (character set to avoid escaping the period) – to no avail?

  • December 15, 2016 at 12:40 pm #90541
    Peter Kahrel

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    What about this:

    “(?<=M.)s" For some reason InDesign gets confused by \> in the place where you had it. No idea why.

    Peter

  • December 19, 2016 at 8:32 am #90597
    Jean Ayotte

    Member

    Thank you Peter, it works! And I realize that the end of word is not needed there.

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