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  • April 12, 2016 at 2:42 pm in reply to: GREP to find first two words of a sentence #83976
    cdncreativepro
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    Thanks Peter. Your fixes got me further than I had been able to myself. But I can’t help but wonder, how can publishers ignore this kind of abomination? It looks weird and it needs a name IMHO!

    April 12, 2016 at 2:39 pm in reply to: GREP to find first two words of a sentence #83975
    cdncreativepro
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    Hah! No, it’s not that. While my document is a kluge from different sources, one thing I’m diligent about is making sure all double spaces after periods get changed to single spaces. I used to be an old-timer, but now I’m a spry single space kind of guy.

    As an aside, I sort of have Peter’s fix working now (I rebooted InDesign), but single first words with an apostrophe are still being stubborn and trying to stick around at the end of the last line.

    Maybe I’ll just have to manually fix those.

    April 12, 2016 at 2:16 pm in reply to: GREP to find first two words of a sentence #83970
    cdncreativepro
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    Hi Peter. Well, I tried putting your first code into a paragraph style GREP with a no break, but what still seems to be happening to me is this:

    “…this is the end of the first sentence. This”

    It’s that darn first word (“This”) sitting up there by itself that bugs me. I don’t even know what to call such instances… orphan? widow? I don’t think this scenario even has a name. But I digress.

    Yep, I’d be perfectly happy to simply no break the first two words of any sentence, and if I can’t allow for hyphenation, that really doesn’t bother me all that much.

    I just want to avoid having the first word of a sentence appearing by itself at the end of the line prior.

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