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• • July 7, 2021 at 11:16 am #14341064
    Jonas Ericsson

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    Hi. I found this article when I was looking for a solution to a problem I have with auto styling for the second last paragraph and the last:

    Auto Style the Last (or First) Paragraph of an InDesign Story

    Does anybody know if there is a solution to it with grep?

    This is the problem:
    I have a quote, an attribution author and who that person is (the only text in the frame) and want a character style after the first paragraph and another c-style at the end. 3 paragraphs in total.

    This is the text at the beginning of the story, the quote
    Name Name (the first character style)
    Title (the second character style)

    Thanks
    Jonas

  • July 8, 2021 at 2:43 pm #14341306
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

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    Do you mean:

    I have text frames! Some have just 3 paras I only want to style! [that excludes text frames with 1, 2, 4 or more paras!]

    (^/) The Jedi

  • July 8, 2021 at 3:06 pm #14341307
    Jonas Ericsson

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    Hi. I was perhaps vague in describing the problem.
    The Paragraph style I want to modify is used only for pull quotes and they are always in a separate frame. The quote itself as the first paragraph, the next para for the name of the person who “speaks” in the quote and then a para for who the person is. For example:
    Your eyes can deceive you. Don’t trust them.
    Obi-Wan Kenobi
    Jedi master

    Sometimes there is only para 1 and 2.

    I hope this describes the problem a little more clearly.

  • July 8, 2021 at 4:20 pm #14341308
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

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    If 2 or 3 paras in these specific text frames, it seems to me simple to style (I would use para styles).

    My 3 para styles are: PS_1, PS_2 and PS_3.

    Regex 1:
    Find: \A.+\r(.+\r)?.+\z
    Replace by format: PS_2

    [This first regex will only catch text frames with 2 or 3 paras!]

    Regex 2:
    Find: \A.
    Find Format: PS_2
    Replace by format: PS_1

    Regex 3:
    Find: .\z
    Find Format: PS_2
    Replace by format: PS_3

    Of course, using a queries launcher, you just need 1 click!

    (^/)

    • July 8, 2021 at 4:40 pm #14341310
      Jonas Ericsson

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      Thanks @michel-allio-for-fridnge
      In this case there is no human involved that can do the clicking.
      The pages will be automated and the text needs to be styled with only one para style. If it where always only two paragraphs Davids trick would have solved my problem.
      If I can’t find a solution with grep or nested style/grep combo, I need to do some design changes for those pull qoutes.

      Thanks for your thoughts,

      Jonas

  • October 1, 2021 at 5:06 am #14347924
    Harold Repass

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    Really like this article.

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