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• • May 12, 2016 at 1:44 am #84850
    Rivkah Lewis

    Member

    I have a English/Hebrew document with hundreds of footnotes. Some, but not all, of the footnote numbers below have taken on the character style of the Hebrew text and are therefor rendering in a different font. This is even when the entire footnote is English. (I think I knwo WHY it happened, but now I need to fix it…)

    I tried a GREP search for any digit one or more times followed by a tab with the paragraph style “footnote” and the character style “Hebrew text” to switch it to character style “none” (at which point it would pick up the nested style i put in for the numbers). But GREP told me it can’t find anything that matches my query. When I select the text, I see those are in fact the par and char styles that are applied.

    How can I fix this?

    TIA

  • May 12, 2016 at 4:29 am #84857
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    Hopefully someone will chime in with an answer. I do believe, though, that GREP won’t find what you want because your footnote markers are technically not numbers with tabs. They are footnote markers.

  • May 12, 2016 at 6:19 am #84858
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    As Dwayne pointed out footnote reference markers are special variables, not digits. Try searching for ~F

  • May 12, 2016 at 7:03 am #84860
    Rivkah Lewis

    Member

    Thanks – that found the footnotes in the text, but I meant the footnote number on the bottom. Is there a special character for that?

    • May 12, 2016 at 8:08 am #84865
      Ari Singer

      Member

      That’s because Include Footnotes is turned off. Turn it on, use the ~F wildcard and it should work.

  • May 12, 2016 at 10:25 am #84869
    Rivkah Lewis

    Member

    No, it was on. Still not working.

    • May 12, 2016 at 10:33 am #84870
      Ari Singer

      Member

      Try omitting everything except the ~F wildcard, so the settings would look like this:

      Find What: ~F
      Find Format: Paragraph Style: “footnote”, Character Style: “Hebrew text”
      Change Format: Character Style: “[None]”

  • May 12, 2016 at 10:58 am #84871
    Rivkah Lewis

    Member

    That’s what I was doing.
    The ~F selects the footnote reference in the text, but not in the footnote on the bottom. I thought that maybe doing that would influence the style of the number on the bottom, but it doesn’t.

    • May 12, 2016 at 11:27 am #84872
      Ari Singer

      Member

      Make sure the search scope is set to Document or to Story and not to Selection or To End Of Story.

  • May 12, 2016 at 11:32 am #84873
    Rivkah Lewis

    Member

    It was set to document, but I just decided to type ~F instead of copy and paste or choosing from the drop down menu as I did before and low and behold, it all worked.
    Can you figure that one out…?

    • May 12, 2016 at 11:39 am #84874
      Ari Singer

      Member

      Glad it works. I’m afraid that when copying and pasting you brought along a preceding or following space without noticing. And when you decided to type it in you unknowingly deleted that space so everything started working correctly.

      Hatzlacha Raba!

  • May 12, 2016 at 11:41 am #84875
    Rivkah Lewis

    Member

    Suppose it must have been something like that. How frustrating!
    Thanks everyone for your help!

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