Comments on: Introducing GREP Styles (1) http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/ Trainer, Print & E-Publishing Consultant, Technical Writer, Public Speaker Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:27:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Leandro http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-2721 Leandro Fri, 03 Feb 2012 18:27:03 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-2721 Thanks for the tutorial, Cari! Is it possible to set up a GREP style that uses some characters as a guide to a pattern, but that does not affect those characters? For instance, in the example of the tutorial, would it be possible to apply the character style to the text inside the parenthesis, but not to the parenthesis characters? Thanks for the tutorial, Cari!
Is it possible to set up a GREP style that uses some characters as a guide to a pattern, but that does not affect those characters?
For instance, in the example of the tutorial, would it be possible to apply the character style to the text inside the parenthesis, but not to the parenthesis characters?

]]> By: Stephen King http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-2685 Stephen King Sat, 07 Jan 2012 13:19:32 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-2685 Cari Jensen-great tut on one thing Grep Styles can do. I have worked a bit in the Help Files about Grep but for some reason this tutorial seems to be more understandable to me. Thanks so much and I am going on to the other 3 at this time. Happy New Year! Steve Cari Jensen-great tut on one thing Grep Styles can do. I have worked a bit in the Help Files about Grep but for some reason this tutorial seems to be more understandable to me. Thanks so much and I am going on to the other 3 at this time.

Happy New Year!
Steve

]]> By: Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-2672 Cari Jansen Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:51:19 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-2672 Hi Rob, hmmmm... don't think you can do that with a 'GREP' style. I'd be inclined to use a script for that as scripts can count 'occurrences'. GREP styles don't count occurrences... but merely look for a pattern. Shortest Match basically looks for the shortest occurrence of a pattern. For instance if a paragraph contains two words in brackets... and you are looking for a word in brackets, it will end the 'pattern' at the first closing bracket rather than the second. And it would then find the second word in brackets as well. Hope this helps. Hi Rob, hmmmm… don’t think you can do that with a ‘GREP’ style. I’d be inclined to use a script for that as scripts can count ‘occurrences’. GREP styles don’t count occurrences… but merely look for a pattern. Shortest Match basically looks for the shortest occurrence of a pattern. For instance if a paragraph contains two words in brackets… and you are looking for a word in brackets, it will end the ‘pattern’ at the first closing bracket rather than the second. And it would then find the second word in brackets as well. Hope this helps.

]]> By: Rob Richman http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-2670 Rob Richman Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:50:41 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-2670 Hello! I have a client whose brand name must be in all-caps the FIRST time it appears, then upper/lower thereafter. I've set-up an all-caps character style and - in my paragraph style - have set-up the following GREP (using 'Brand' instead of the real name here)... Brand+? ...I THOUGHT adding the Repeat > One or More Times (Shortest Match) would do the trick, but no luck...it's capping ALL mentions of the name within the paragraph...Any advice? Hello! I have a client whose brand name must be in all-caps the FIRST time it appears, then upper/lower thereafter. I’ve set-up an all-caps character style and – in my paragraph style – have set-up the following GREP (using ‘Brand’ instead of the real name here)…

Brand+?

…I THOUGHT adding the Repeat > One or More Times (Shortest Match) would do the trick, but no luck…it’s capping ALL mentions of the name within the paragraph…Any advice?

]]> By: Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-2582 Cari Jansen Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:08:47 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-2582 @Jane Please note there is a significant difference between how InDesign and Quark handle Character Styles. Character styles when created are best designed by first applying the paragraph style over the top of which they will be applied... then define the new style. This means only those attributes that differ from the rest of the text will be included in the style. @Jane
Please note there is a significant difference between how InDesign and Quark handle Character Styles.
Character styles when created are best designed by first applying the paragraph style over the top of which they will be applied… then define the new style. This means only those attributes that differ from the rest of the text will be included in the style.

]]> By: Jane Tenenbaum http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-2579 Jane Tenenbaum Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:40:50 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-2579 I may have just figured out the above, just nested style... I may have just figured out the above, just nested style…

]]> By: Jane Tenenbaum http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-2578 Jane Tenenbaum Thu, 29 Sep 2011 22:36:48 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-2578 Hi! Ever since I switched from Quark, I have been trying to do what Quark does easily: When I make a paragraph, e.g., "Tx," I want to create a character style (e.g., "Tx-char") for that paragraph to use all the time (not to have just have "none" as its char. style). Is it possible to use GREP to make the whole paragraph use the Tx-char style? btw: I'm using a trial version of Indesign CS 5.5 Hi! Ever since I switched from Quark, I have been trying to do what Quark does easily: When I make a paragraph, e.g., “Tx,” I want to create a character style (e.g., “Tx-char”) for that paragraph to use all the time (not to have just have “none” as its char. style). Is it possible to use GREP to make the whole paragraph use the Tx-char style? btw: I’m using a trial version of Indesign CS 5.5

]]> By: Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-1315 Cari Jansen Fri, 01 Oct 2010 00:41:15 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-1315 @Camilo What is it you are trying to do, find the letter 'a' when it is between quotes-marks? you would just use the literal character 'a' in that case. E.g. (?<=")a(?=") @Camilo

What is it you are trying to do, find the letter ‘a’ when it is between quotes-marks?

you would just use the literal character ‘a’ in that case. E.g. (?<=”)a(?=”)

]]> By: CAMILO http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-1305 CAMILO Wed, 29 Sep 2010 07:40:24 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-1305 What if i want to replace the "any character" character, for a hole word. For example, I want to replace the period "." for the letter "a" and thats how im doing that, but it just doesnt work. (?<=“)\a(?=”) What if i want to replace the “any character” character, for a hole word. For example, I want to replace the period “.” for the letter “a” and thats how im doing that, but it just doesnt work.

(?<=“)\a(?=”)

]]> By: Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-809 Cari Jansen Fri, 26 Mar 2010 01:29:57 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-809 @Erica Gamet: you are most welcome! Glad I could help. @Erica Gamet: you are most welcome! Glad I could help.

]]> By: Erica Gamet http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-800 Erica Gamet Tue, 16 Mar 2010 23:08:08 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-800 Thank you, Cari, for being the only resource that mentions shortest match. I've been trying to figure out how to find HTML-like tags in a doc, strip them out, and format them when there was more than one instance in a paragraph. Shortest match...who knew one little question mark could mean so much? Thank you, thank you! Thank you, Cari, for being the only resource that mentions shortest match. I’ve been trying to figure out how to find HTML-like tags in a doc, strip them out, and format them when there was more than one instance in a paragraph. Shortest match…who knew one little question mark could mean so much? Thank you, thank you!

]]> By: Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-495 Cari Jansen Sun, 05 Jul 2009 16:07:41 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-495 @Jochen: Yep :-) http://carijansen.com/2009/05/03/styles-styles-and-more-styles/ I reckon it's a must have book for anyone who is serious about learning to work with InDesign productively and using 'best practice approach'. @Jochen:

Yep :-)
http://carijansen.com/2009/05/03/styles-styles-and-more-styles/

I reckon it’s a must have book for anyone who is serious about learning to work with InDesign productively and using ‘best practice approach’.

]]> By: Jochen F. Uebel http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-494 Jochen F. Uebel Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:28:51 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-494 BTW: Michael Murphy has shown in his great new book on InDesign Styles that Adobe’s list of GREP Metacharacters is incomplete. What about a quick change of http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6f59a.html BTW: Michael Murphy has shown in his great new book on InDesign Styles that Adobe’s list of GREP Metacharacters is incomplete. What about a quick change of
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/InDesign/6.0/WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6f59a.html

]]> By: Cari Jansen http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-493 Cari Jansen Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:26:34 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-493 Hi Jochen. Great site! Thanks. Hi Jochen. Great site! Thanks.

]]> By: Jochen F. Uebel http://carijansen.com/2009/07/04/tip-088/#comment-492 Jochen F. Uebel Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:11:38 +0000 http://carijansen.com/?p=762#comment-492 Hi Carl, very good, thanks. Think it is very important to communicate these new technologies proudly and intensively. Tried something similar just two days ago: with the simple example of figures typogracilly organized in groups of three. Don’t mind the German; GREPs are international ;-) http://blog.smi.ch/2009/07/03/automatische-3er-gruppe-zahlen/ Jochen Hi Carl,
very good, thanks. Think it is very important to communicate these new technologies proudly and intensively.
Tried something similar just two days ago: with the simple example of figures typogracilly organized in groups of three. Don’t mind the German; GREPs are international ;-)
http://blog.smi.ch/2009/07/03/automatische-3er-gruppe-zahlen/
Jochen

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