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• • November 28, 2017 at 1:57 am #99917
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hello!

    Do you have any solution for my problem:
    I want to replace each letter “s”, “ss” and the german character “ß” with underlined white space.
    I tried it with following GREEP style:
    search for: (ss)|(ß)
    replace: several format options, it works well

    BUT: How can I manage, that “ss” is one item and one single “s” another one. At the moment “ss” are two new formatted “s”.
    i hope it wasn’t to abstruse.

  • November 28, 2017 at 3:17 am #99918
    Graham Park

    Member

    You could try find s one or more times or the ß
    then replace with what you want/

    (s+)|(ß)

  • November 28, 2017 at 11:08 am #99926
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thanks Graham, (s+) finds ss but changes the new style twice and not only one time. That’s my problem.

  • November 28, 2017 at 3:10 pm #99929
    Graham Park

    Member

    Not sure what you mean or are after.
    Can you give us an example of what you want
    This (s+)|(ß) finds a single s or two ss in a row or the ß and changes it to what ever you want to to be. The s and ss are replaced by one _ for instance.

    this does
    “s”, “ss” and the german character “ß”
    “_”, “_” and the german character “_”

  • November 29, 2017 at 12:54 am #99940
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Graham, I want to replace “ss” to “__”, “ß” to “__” and “s” to “__”

    When I do it this way, “ss” will changed to “____”(double “__”).

    What’s the mistake???

  • November 29, 2017 at 1:18 am #99941
    Graham Park

    Member

    Not sure why you are having a problem.
    The (s+) will find one or more s in a row and replace with what you place below so enter two underscores.
    So when it finds s it will place one __
    When two ss again it will place one __

    GREP
    Find
    (s+)|(ß)

    Replace
    __

  • November 29, 2017 at 2:07 am #99942
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Thank’s.
    I made the mistake, that I didn’t choose “replace” but “change format”.
    Using “change format” doubles the “s” format at “ss”.

  • November 30, 2017 at 6:35 am #99974
    David Popham

    Participant

    If you wish to apply your styling to every instance of s, ss or ß in the paragraphs you are targeting, you could use a GREP style that sets the character color to “None” and turns on the underline option with the color set to Black (or whatever color your text is).

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