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• • July 15, 2013 at 2:23 am #34263
    Matthew Appleton

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    Hello

    Just getting into GREP, and I have what is hopefully an answerable query!

    I want to apply a page-number character style to any character after the third tab in my contents page paragraph style.

    Any assistance much appreciated!

  • July 15, 2013 at 10:22 am #34266
    Justin Sligh

    Member

    Matthew,

    You would need to do a positive look-behind to search for the three tab characters and then use a .+ for any number of characters after.

    (?<=).+

    (?<=) Positive Look-behind
    Tab Character
    . Any character
    + One or more of the previous

    This should do the trick.

  • July 29, 2013 at 1:30 am #34432
    Matthew Appleton

    Member

    Hi there

    Many thanks, this worked a treat.

    I had actually found another solution that makes the most of the fact that the numbers are always at the end of a line for the ToC. So this bit of grep could be used to assign a style to digits only at the end of a line…

    \d+$

    Hope this little thread is useful to someone else out there.

    best regards

    • July 29, 2013 at 5:26 am #34451
      Justin Sligh

      Member

      Matthew,

      You can apply a character style to page numbers and leaders within the table of contents style (Layout > Table of Contents Style..). This can be done separately for each TOC entry. Are you using an automated table of contents or were you creating it manually?

      Your expression would still prove useful if you included section markers within your page numbers and you wanted to style the letters and numbers differently (e.g., A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, B3).

  • July 29, 2013 at 7:03 am #34458
    Matthew Appleton

    Member

    You are right Justin, this ToC ended up being made manually though… and thanks for the advice on how expression coudl still be useful.

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