Do you apply a character style to the footnote numbers (using a nested style)? If yes, check that character style and make sure that it doesn’t set a leading bigger than the paragraph’s leading.

Peter

In what way does that code not work? Works fine for me.

Explain in some more detail what you want to do, because clearly I don’t understand it. You have a character style and a paragraph style. And you want to set up a Grep style in the paragraph style using that character style. Correct?

What you want to avoid has no name as far as I’m aware because nobody objects to it. Some publishers want to avoid single-letter words (A, a, I) at the end of a line, but it still has no name.

That the expressio doesn’t work for you is probably caused by the double spaces that Ari mentioned, and his suggested solutions should handle that.

That report is not suitable directly to select a paragraph from. But something in-between that fancy approach (which is possible but requires more scripting) and nothing at all is the script below. Open the document, run the script, and enter the story id (in the report) and the paragraph index separated by a space, slash, whatever non-numeric, and press Enter or click OK.

 (function () {
  var parId = prompt ('Enter a story id followed by the paragraph index:', '');
  if (parId !== null) {
   // var parts = parId.split(/\D/);
    var par = app.documents[0].stories.itemByID(Number(parts[0])).paragraphs[parts[1]];
    app.windows[0].activePage = par.parentTextFrames[0].parentPage;
    par.select();
  }
}());

Jim,

.+ means 'one or more characters'.
.* stands for 'zero or more characters', so that would find </i><i> as well. But . doesn't match the end-of-paragraph marker, and in this case that seems good because </i> at the end of a paragraph and <i> at the beginning of the next one seem legitimate. Or not?

P.

Jim,

This is a good candidate for changing italics formatting to text tags like <i>. . .</i>. That way you can look for a single non-italic character in an italic environment. After the italic conversion, such a character would look like this: </i>è<i> (italic off, è, italic on). Replace that with è and finally change the italic text tags to italic formatting.

To change italic formatting to tags:

Find what: .+
Find format: +Italic

Change to: <i>$0</i>
Change format: Regular (or Roman, Medium, Book — the non-italic stylen name of your font)

Now replace </i>è<i> with è. Or place all accented characters in your document in a class: </i>[éëê]<i>. Or target all single characters: </i>.<i>.

Finally, rstore italic formatting:

Find what: <i>(.+?)</i>
Find format: <nothing>

Change to: $1
Change format: Italic

Peter

Here’s a scriptlet to change the language in all paragraph styles:

styles = app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles;
for (i = 1; i < styles.length; i++) {
  styles[i].appliedLanguage = 'English: UK';
}

To do character styles as well, change allParagraphStyles to allCharacterStyles.

Peter

No need for a table. Use a GREP to place the last names before the first names, sort the list, then use another GREP to place the last names after the first names:

Find what: ^(.+?) (.+)
Change to: $2@$1

Sort the list

Find what: ^(.+)@(.+)
Change to: $2 $1

Breakdown:

^ Start of paragraph
(.+?) Match and capture up to (the first space)
Match the first space
(.+) Match and capture the rest of the paragraph

Peter