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• • March 23, 2015 at 9:26 am #74113
    Luke Hall

    Member

    Hello,

    I was wondering if anyone could help me.

    I am looking to apply a character style only when a particular character is talking (including speech marks) in a text for example:

    “I could not do that,” said Sancho, “for when I separate from your worship fear at once lays hold of me, and assails me with all sorts of panics and fancies; and let what I now say be a notice that from this time forth I am not going to stir a finger’s width from your presence.”

    So far I have got to:

    “.*?”(?= said Sancho,)
    (?= said Sancho,) “.*?”

    Which works to a degree but this is very specific.
    Is it possible for whenever the character occurs in paragraph, I can format first occurrence of speech marks before and after characters name?

    Any help will be much appreciated,

    With best wishes,

    Luke

  • March 23, 2015 at 9:28 am #74114
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Tricky. What if another character says:
    “You are muy guapo Sancho,” said Lupe, as she put down the gun
    That line has “sancho” in it, too…

  • March 23, 2015 at 9:34 am #74115
    Luke Hall

    Member

    Thanks for the quick response,

    In this case I would remove the styling by hand as from what I have seen this doesn’t occur too frequently.

    Best,
    Luke

  • March 23, 2015 at 9:36 am #74116
    Luke Hall

    Member

    or is it possible to specify left and right quotation mark.

  • March 23, 2015 at 3:44 pm #74131
    Aaron Troia

    Participant

    Yes, in InDesign GREP a left double quotation mark is signified as ~{ and a right double quotation mark is ~}

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