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• • July 12, 2013 at 9:44 am #34232
    Jamie Hinojosa

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    I have a client that wants double spacing after each period in his book. It currently has a single space. Can any one share a GREP expression that will change a single space to a double space with out affection things like abbreviated words or Dr. and such?
    Any help would be greatly appreciated.
    jh

  • July 13, 2013 at 9:26 am #34253
    Justin Sligh

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    Jamie,

    Instead of adding an additional physical whitespace character, you should consider providing the desired space through your paragraph styles.

    Create a grep style using:
    (?<=[[:punct:]]) (?=\u)

    The associated character style will control the width of your spaces. You can set the horizontal setting to 200 percent to double the size.

    We then need to take care of the Mr., Ms., Mrs. You can do so by creating a second grep style using:
    Dr\. |Mr\. |Ms\. |Mrs\.

    Take note of the space after each dot. The associated character style should have the horizontal setting set to 100 percent. In order to override the previous grep style, ensure that this one is placed above the previous.

    I was unable to use a negative lookbehind that included multiple entries. I am sure a grep guru could provide an example of how to do this in a single grep style.

  • July 15, 2013 at 2:49 pm #34267
    Jamie Hinojosa

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    Thanks for this. I appreciate the quick response.

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