Uh, it seems you missed the sub-question in my question. How would it be possible to apply two paragraph styles to just a single paragraph? A paragraph style, by definition and by purpose, applies formatting to an entire paragraph. Applying “a second” paragraph style removes all formatting of the previous one and replaces it with its own.

You might want to take a look at character styles — now those are meant to be applied to parts of a paragraph.

Liz' Webkit-based solution only and specifically works for iBooks on the iPad.

I'd rather steer clear from forcing this, because 'hyphenation' is a user preference in iBooks' settings, so the reader can decide for him/herself what they prefer.

Eric, sorry — you are correct, I re-read my post and indeed forgot to mention it's Javascript.

InDesign supports three different scripting languages out-of-the-box, and so it would be wise to always state what language is used :-) There are a few small clues, though, hidden inthe “syntax”:

AppleScript uses a syntax based on English:

tell application “InDesign” to copy item 3 of page 1 … — this is a comment

etc. (I'm making this one up as I don't speak AppleScript).

Visual Basic leans heavily on ye olde Basic and has Initial Caps for Everything:

Sub CopyItem (item) ' a comment after a ' sign

x = Rectangles.Add()

Javascript looks like … the above :D Lots of curly braces, a semicolon to end each command.

Yes, that ought to work (the forum software ate your backslahes before each 'd' — to have them appear in tour post, you need to enter 2 of 'em).

Rather than adjusting every separate string in the Find What array, you could paste this at the end of the constrcuted findWhat string.

At times GREP sounds like the Ideal Magic solution, and indeed it can do a lot of stuff that's not possible with regular searching. However, in this case it cannot.

A GREP style cannot apply a line style. It's oblivious to 'lines' in paragraphs. Use a Nested Line Style to do so. In addition, you want to apply a GREP style if the paragraph style before the current one is something else. You can only use a GREP style inside the current style, and it cannot look outside of its paragraph.

You can use Find GREP to locate your first paragraphs. Look for this:

(?<!r)^.

and put your body paragraph style in the Find Format. It will locate the paragraphs where the previous hard return is “not found”, i.e., it's not found because it's not in the same formatting.

In the Replace With field you cannot add a nested style, so you still have to create a duplicate paragraph style that sets your first line highlight.

As with a lot of repeating stuff, Javascript can help you here! This short script will move all items to the left by '-4' in your current units. (So if your setup is in inches, you might want to start with a somewhat smaller value )

Change the '-4' into whatever you want — negative moves to the left, positive to the right.

(Edit: hmm, on hindsight I'd better add an undo for this!)

You may correct me if I'm wrong, but apart from “hidden”, isn't there also an attribute “printing” for objects?