Join Michael Murphy for an in-depth discussion in this video Styling specific words or phrases, part of Learning GREP with InDesign.
Another advantage of GREP Styles over Nested Styles is that a GREP Style can…be applied to specific words or phrases, no matter how many times they appear in a paragraph.…This is an ideal way to automatically italicize, for instance, a publication…name, or highlight a product name, and it's one of the easiest GREP styles…you'll ever create.…In this paragraph, there are a number of different product names and I want…to highlight one in particular, the Super Widget product name, in a different Character Style.…And I want to do that everywhere it appears and I don't want to do it manually.…
So, in order to have it done automatically for me, I am going to create a new…GREP style in this product description Paragraph Style.…I will right-click that style name in the Paragraph Styles panel, choose Edit…Product Description and go to GREP Style to create a New GREP Style.…The style I want to apply is already in this document.…It's called Product Name and I will just pick that from the Apply Style menu.…
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 19s
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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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