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dave c courtemanche
dave c courtemanche
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Aug 10, 2012 12:36 PM

I have an indesign para style where I have a character style nested to a colon. I'd like to have a grep style that states "whenever you encounter text in parenthesis, italicize the text (along with the parathensis)". I thought it would be [\(\l\u\)] but that didn't do it. Any help would be appreciated.

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  • [Jongware]
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    1. [Jongware],
    Aug 10, 2012 12:45 PM   in reply to dave c courtemanche
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    Your try consists only of a *character set*, that is, a list of matching single characters. Hence it doesn't work -- *all* of each single character in your set, uppercase, lowercase, and parentheses, are matched, one at a time.

     

    Try this instead:

     

    \(.+?\)

     

    It's left to right: open parens, any character, lots of them, but not too many, closing parens.

     
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    2. dave c courtemanche,
    Aug 10, 2012 12:58 PM   in reply to [Jongware]
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    That did it. Thanks much. Wish I had read your Q&A on your site about not answering private messages a year ago.

     
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