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• • August 1, 2011 at 2:02 pm #60188
    Lukas Engqvist

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    I have a client that wants to have bold text to look like it's been highlighted with a highlight pen. The text is originaly bold so I made it first into a character style and then change that character style to underline which is thickened and offset to give a highlight effect… so far so good, then I realise that some times the space when to words are bold is not always highlighted. But GREP styles cannot look for underlined text so how can I make the spaces the same character style? I only whant this to happen if the space is BETWEEN two words that have this character style, not a space trailing a highlighted word.

    Thank you

    Lukas

  • August 2, 2011 at 2:46 am #60194
    Theunis De Jong

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    Best I can think of is searching for a not-underlined space that has nothing left and right:

    (?s)(?<!.) (?!.)

    (with “Underline Off” in Search Formatting.)

    1. You can not use this in a GREP Style either, as it relies on the Underline Off attribute
    2. Watch out, as I suspect it may also find single spaces inside tables (those also don't have a not-underlined character to its left and right).

  • August 2, 2011 at 6:21 am #60196
    Lukas Engqvist

    Member

    Thanks, needed a little modification:

    The underlined must be a character style. otherwise, since there isn't a NOT function in the find/change dialogue

    (?s)(?<!.) (?!.)

    1) I changed the space to “s”

    2) In the find i set it to “[None]”, since this finds text that does not have a specifeid caracter format.

    3) In the change format chage to the underlined Character style.

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