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GREP End of Sory character

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    • November 30, 2014 at 9:26 am #71908
      Stuart Horner
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      I am using a GREP paragraph style in conjunction with Data Merge to make words or even whole paragraphs effectively disappear if the right conditions are met. It does this by reducing the font size and scale to the minimum and setting the character colour to None.

      In order to make paragraphs disappear I am capturing the “End of Paragraph” character in the GREP style. My problem is that if the paragraph is the last in the story, I need to include the “End of Story” character to achieve the same effect. This wouldn’t be a problem, except that on bottom justified text frames, I am left with a blank line at the end. I am including the “\Z” in my GREP code but this isn’t working. Am I doing something wrong or is this not possible?

      Any help would be much appreciated.

    • December 1, 2014 at 6:32 am #71918
      Kenneth Darby
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      Have you tried adding a dot before the \Z (e.g. “.\Z”)? No guarantee but it would be something I would try.

      I’m a big fan of using a “Disappear” character style in the manner you describe. I hope you can get it working.

    • December 1, 2014 at 10:11 am #71931
      Stuart Horner
      Member

      Hi Kenneth, I do have a text pattern in front of the \z but your reply prompted to look at it again and it now works as intended, so thank you!

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