I was actually wondering if there is any search/replace I could have done that would have changed the break for just the first line of each group. Right now every line ends with ^p. I was wondering if there's a grep I could do that would end the product line in each block (basically every 4th line) with ^n instead.

Then another search/replace would let me follow every line break with an “end nested style” character.

In retrospect that wouldn't have helped, it'd just apply the style to the very first line of the first block and then the style's done for the rest of the text. Too bad there's no “begin nested style” character.

Still, for my own education, is such a search and replace possible? Either change the ending character of just every 4th line, or maybe search for the pattern

^p^p [some random text] ^p, and replace with

^p^p [same random text] ^n?

I think I get what you're saying, I found a similar idea.

I didn't get how to use “next style” until I saw a tutorial on it here:

https://layersmagazine.com/usin…..esign.html

So basically this was what I created:

Paragraph Style 1 (bold) –> under general, set next style: Paragraph Style 2.

Paragraph Style 2 (normal) –> under general, set next style: Paragraph Style 3.

Paragraph Style 3 (normal) –> under general, set next style: Paragraph Style 4.

Paragraph Style 4 (normal) -> under general, set next style: Paragraph Style 1.

So it bolds the first line, the next two lines are normal. The 4th style is because the empty line between paragraps is considered a 4th paragraph. The style then loops back to the first style. For anyone else puzzled as to why their “next style” isn't automatically kicking in, you need to right click the style in your paragraph palette and then choose “Apply [stylename] then next style”.