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• • April 6, 2018 at 2:14 am #102944
    Jonas Köbele

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    Hello everyone.

    I need a very specific GREP query, which I am unable to figure out myself.

    The setup is as this:

    First sentence\r
    Second sentence\r
    Third sentence\r

    The sentences are all in separate, linked text boxes.
    This recurs on 300 pages.

    Now I need to address only the first row.

    But wait… there’s more! Following challenges are given due to technical restrictions:
    All sentences have varying word counts
    I can not change the sentences (not able to add “end-nested-style-here-marker” or changing \r in )
    I can not unlink the text boxes; or use only one)

    The most logical method for me would be to “any words till first \r” but either I think incorrect, or it does not work, because it interprets the second sentence as this as well? One thing I tried for example would be [\u]|\r?

    Do I not understand how counting works? Or is this really that difficult?

    (Nested and line styles don’t work, because of the technical limitations.)

    Thanks for your help.

  • April 6, 2018 at 2:32 am #102946
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    If only the 3 text frames are threaded together [groups of 3 text frames threaded]:

    \A.+

    Best,
    Michel, frm FRIdNGE

    • April 6, 2018 at 4:40 am #102948
      Jonas Köbele

      Member

      Thanks for the help.
      After all this hassle I finally realized my problem lies in another nature and can’t be fixed :)
      The longer you stare at something the more blind you become.

      Cheers.

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