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• • September 25, 2013 at 8:20 am #65508
    Cindy Kelley

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    Hi,

    I have an anal client who hates hyphenation and a line of text that ends with words such as “and”, “but”, “or” or any word smaller than four letters. I know, I know, this is going to make for some ugly paragraphs but this is what he wants.

    Can I use grep styles to fix these things in a similar way I use a grep style to fix widows?

    Thanks everyone!

    Cindy in Indy

  • September 25, 2013 at 8:24 am #65510
    Cindy Kelley

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    I think I came up with a solution — I have replaced all the spaces following these words with a non-breaking space.

    If someone has a better idea or can make me a script to do this that I can use when I have this client’s jobs, I will send virtual hugs your way.

  • October 13, 2013 at 3:34 pm #65747
    ‘toputadavida Putaoaldo

    Member

    Hi,
    I’m on the side of your client! Here’s a simple grep…

    Create a char style ‘no break’ – select only ‘No Break’ on the Basic Char Formats tab.

    Edit GREP Style for your chosen para style
    Add New GREP Style, with ‘no break’ char style selected, To Text: and (?=\w+)
    [space][the word][space][before one or more words]

    Instead of space, you could also put for ‘any space character’ instead of just typing [space].

    You’d need to make a style for each small word you want to apply ‘no break’ to…

    Too many GREPs slow down long documents, so it may not be viable for all projects.

  • October 13, 2013 at 5:45 pm #65749
    ‘toputadavida Putaoaldo

    Member

    Just noticed that you don’t need the + in the grep – one word look ahead is enough.

  • October 15, 2013 at 5:56 am #65797
    Matt Mayerchak

    Participant

    In a regular GREP, you can combine words as an OR expression with the vertical bar. So, for example, you could use just one GREP style for [and|but|or|for]. I have not tested this but it seems like it ought to work in this case.

  • December 4, 2014 at 1:50 pm #72051
    Gavin Anderson

    Participant

    Here is a GREP for getting rid of orphans.

    Apply a NO Break character style (a style where the only thing specified is that No Break is forced on) to the following:

    (\w+ \w+)[[:punct:]]$

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