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• • April 23, 2012 at 12:35 pm #62045
    valroze

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    I am currently formatting a book that has crazy superscript and subscript requirements. It is equivalent to a medical dictionary. Anyway the current grep expression I am having trouble with is superscripting for references. For example,

    prenatal exposure and exposure to acetaminophen in the first year of life has also been linked to development of asthma later in life. [9, 10, 11, 12, 13]

    All of the numbers in brackets have to be superscripted. I have used Grep for making the brackets disappear but I can only get the 9 to be superscript. Sometimes I can get the 9 and one comma or the 9 and 13. Another problem I am facing is that all of the references are placed inbetween brackets but some are formatted like the one above and some are formatted like:

    [4-6]

    The grep expressions I am currently using are

    style: disappear

    (?<=d)]

    Style: Disappear

    [(?=/d)

    Style: superscript

    (?<=[)d+(?=])

    I've tried a lot of other combinations but haven't figured it out. Any ideas?

  • April 23, 2012 at 1:23 pm #62046
    Anonymous

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    [ 0123456789,-]+(?=])

    I think this might work for you, It just superscripts any combination of digits, space, commas and dashes that are preceding a close bracket.

    some good advice about s from jongware:

    (Note that I inserted the — probably — missing backslashes The forum software removes single s, so to get you must type \).

  • April 23, 2012 at 1:32 pm #62047
    valroze

    Member

    Thank you SO very much! Exactly what I needed. I overthink these way too much. And as far as the s go I thought my keyboard was broken there for a min. =) Thanks for the heads up.

  • April 24, 2012 at 3:26 am #62053
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    It's easier to do this with a Nested Style

    

    

  • April 24, 2012 at 8:16 am #62054
    valroze

    Member

    The nested style would not work because many of these are throughout the paragraph. In fact the sentence I gave you as an example is smack dab in the middle of a paragraph. I also needed a way to make the brackets disappear. Thank you for the input anyway! Believe me it is much appreciated.

  • April 24, 2012 at 8:53 am #62055
    valroze

    Member

    Is it possible for me to make sure the superscript reference digits don't break from the preceeding sentence? They are splitting off from that sentence and I can't have them seperating.

  • April 24, 2012 at 10:25 am #62058
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    Add “No Break” in the character style you are applying.

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