Join Michael Murphy for an in-depth discussion in this video Applying multiple character styles to the same text, part of Learning GREP with InDesign.
In addition to quick and easy formatting, GREP Styles also let you do something…that's otherwise impossible in InDesign, and that is to simultaneously apply…more than one character style to the same bit of text.…The Paragraph Style applied to the body copy in this document already has a GREP…Style built into it that automatically detects prices and formats them by…changing their color and typeface.…What I want to do is change a small portion of that price, just the cents and I…want to apply the superscript attribute through another character style.…
I have another character style in this document, called Cents. I'll right-click…on the Cents Style in the Character Styles panel and choose Edit Cents, from the context menu.…In the Character Style Options dialog, let's take a look at what's going on in…this particular character style.…Under Basic Character Formats, nothing about the style is defined uniquely…except that it uses the OpenType Superior/Superscript attribute.…In addition, under Advanced Character Formats, there's a slight Baseline Shift…
Author
Michael Murphy
Released
11/18/2009- Using metacharacters, the building blocks of GREP
- Describing text that may not exist with zero operators
- Applying multiple character styles to the same text with GREP styles
- Eliminating orphaned words at the ends of paragraphs
- Preserving and recalling subexpressions
- Customizing a GREP-based text cleanup script for long documents
Skill Level Intermediate
Duration
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Q: In the “Dynamically fixing orphaned words with GREP” tutorial the author uses the term:
(?<=\w)\s(?=\w+[[:punct:]]+$)
In an earlier course the author described the + (one or more) modifier as unusable in a lookbehind or lookahead i.e. (?<=.+). What's the difference here?
A: The limitation mentioned in an earlier movie referred only to positive lookbehind and negative lookbehind. I was able to use the one or more times (+) metacharacter in the positive lookahead portion of the expression because that limitation doesn't affect either positive or negative lookahead. It's only when looking backward that GREP ignores the repeat metacharacters.
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Introduction
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Welcome1m 4s
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1. GREP Basics
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What is GREP?1m 53s
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2. Basic Metacharacters
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Escaping out metacharacters2m 49s
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Building with wild cards9m 9s
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Specifying locations7m 4s
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3. Advanced Metacharacters
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Creating "or" conditions5m 24s
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Building subexpressions5m 52s
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4. GREP Styles
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Describing inconsistent text6m 59s
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5. GREP Find/Change
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Understanding queries8m 20s
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Cleaning up text with GREP2m 45s
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6. A Practical Project with Advanced Find/Change and GREP
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Conclusion
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Goodbye27s
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