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David BlatnerKeymasterI do not think that is possible with InDesign’s GREP.
However, if you had a lot of this text that required searching, it might be worth the time to export as InDesign Tagged Text. When you do that and open the tagged text in a text editor, you would see something like this:<ParaStyle:NormalParagraphStyle><cTypeface:Italic>Natiunt am eumenet idus adi dolora sum harcimus recum aceribus ad quid endamet fugia sin custiae ctibearum sunt aut faces aut<cTypeface:><0x00E9><cTypeface:Italic>nis apienimus maxim voluptia voluptatate prat lita dolorernam que sit a que laborem necaboribus magnatur aut ut utemporem as eos que con elliqui dusdam que nonsequatat.
From there, you could search for places where the typeface is changing at the accented e (which is what that unicode 0x00E9 thing is in the middle of the paragraph).
This is pretty geeky, but it can work, I think.
David BlatnerKeymasterMy guess is that it is not the diacritical characters but rather that something about those paragraphs is not italic. Try removing the Find Format: Italic part. Then it should find every paragraph, no matter what the formatting, right?
David BlatnerKeymasterYes, GREP is incredible. You can learn more here: https://creativepro.com/grep
David BlatnerKeymasterThose little rounded corners are very hard to create with InDesign.
But the basic “highlighter” style is easy:
https://creativepro.com/making-a-text-highlighter.php
and https://creativepro.com/automatically-highlight-text-with-spaces.php
David BlatnerKeymasterThis isn’t really what you’re trying to do, but does it help at all?
https://creativepro.com/continued-heading-table.phpYou want to make sure that you’re actually converting those two rows to header rows.
David BlatnerKeymasterGreat idea, Eugene. We’ll ask our devs about that.
David BlatnerKeymasterWe also run an informal InDesign wishlist here:
https://indesign.uservoice.com/forums/114445-adobe-indesign-wishlist/filters/topMarch 31, 2016 at 6:37 am in reply to: Convert smart (curly) quotes to dumb (straight) quotes in InDesign using JS #83533
David BlatnerKeymasterThere may be an easier way, just using Find/Change:
https://creativepro.com/curly-typography-quotes-turn-off.php/comment-page-1#comment-1096377
David BlatnerKeymasterI just copied your message into InDesign and spell-checked it and all those hyphenated words were spelled correctly for me. I wonder why they’re showing up as incorrect for you? Maybe the Language applied to the text in the Character panel?
David BlatnerKeymasterCan you explain what you mean by “it gives me the links that are shown and broken”? Is it relinking? Trying to relink?
I’m curious: if you export your file as an IDML file and then open that IDML, does it still happen? If not, then there might be some “cruft” that got stuck in the INDD file.
David BlatnerKeymasterOh, dang, you’re right! It is hiding inside content options. My mistake. Thanks. Not sure how you’d put all that together. Perhaps Loic knows a way to make the script do it.
David BlatnerKeymasterNo, sorry, InDesign has no easy way to change the language (or any other format setting) across lots of paragraph and character styles at the same time.
David BlatnerKeymasterI don’t think there’s any way to do that. Maybe a custom script.
David BlatnerKeymasterIn general, what you are doing is correct: One paragraph style for numbers at the beginning, and one for no numbers.
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