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• • February 1, 2018 at 8:42 am #101343
    Anonymous

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    Hi I hope someone can help. I am trying to make two GREPS to style a menu. I want one to style the food name and another to style the food description. An example is below.

    Food Title (RIGHT ALIGN TAB) £XX.XX (SOFT RETURN HERE)
    Food description. (END OF PARAGRAPH)

    with this in mind I figure the below should work.

    for the Food title = (?=~y)[\u]*
    I thought this should look ahead for any right align tabs and then style any text behind it.
    ~y = (right align tab)

    in addition for the food description i though it should be the below.
    (?<=£\d+\.?(\d+)*)[\u]* OR
    (?<=^n)[\u]*
    a positive look behind for either the variable price formats or a soft return followed by setting it to edit the words that follow this. I am fairly new so still trying to get my head around GREPS, but any advice you guys can offer would be greatly appreciated.

  • February 1, 2018 at 8:57 am #101346
    Claudio Marconato

    Member

    Glen, I think that you can keep it simpler without having much to do with lookahead and lookbehind for your situation.

    I suggest two simple GREP style, see the screenshot:
    https://adobe.ly/2nuBRDw

    Let me know if it works for you

  • February 1, 2018 at 9:28 am #101349
    Vinny –

    Member

    In my honest opinion, nested styles are much likely to be your friends here than Grep styles.
    A simple nested style “to ^y” (right-align tab) will nicely format your food title.
    About food description, why not simply create a new paragraph instead of using forced-line break?
    In case you must/want to keep your forced-line break, use another nested style “to Forced-line break” to format your price.

    By the way, why should the characters of Food title be either \u, or space? What about Hot-dogs? ^^

  • February 1, 2018 at 10:20 am #101350
    Claudio Marconato

    Member

    I agree with Vinny 38, nested styles is enough for this, but I prefer the forced-line break method rather then creating two paragraphs styles so I agree with Glen on this.

  • February 1, 2018 at 10:35 am #101353
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hey Guys,

    Just wanted to say a massive thank you for the advice. Got caught up with another project since posting, will follow this up tomorrow and let you know how I got on! In all honesty I haven’t used nested styles in the past but will be interested at looking at the different benefits of the two and when they should be used. Have a good evening :)

  • February 1, 2018 at 10:35 am #101354
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    PS – Vinny cheers for the Hot-Dogs (food for thought)

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