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CS3 Ital script help needed

Aug 24, 2010 8:13 AM

I'm not familiar with the InCopy Script language and I'm looking for help in how to accomplish the

following script.

 

Here's what I would be searching for.

 

(BEG ITAL) any amount of text here...(END ITAL)

 

I need the script to remove the (BEG ITAL) and (END ITAL) then change the text between them to italic.

 

I can do this easily with Word but inCopy scripting stumps me. Any help

would be appreciated.

 

Dave

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  • mattaca
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    1. mattaca,
    Sep 17, 2010 11:52 AM   in reply to dcrane37
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    I'm not sure if you're still looking for help with this, but this can be done with one GREP find/change command. Copy and paste the text between the quotes into the GREP find/change dialog and set up everything else as indicated. I put a space before the expression so you don't end up with double spaces after you find/change, but you may want to watch the first few to make sure it's functioning as you desire.

     

    Find What: " \(BEG ITAL\)(.+?)\(END ITAL\)"

    Change To: leave blank

    Find Format: leave blank

    Change Format: Character style = ITALIC

     

    Let me know if this works for you,

    Matthew

     
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    2. dcrane37,
    Sep 24, 2010 8:48 AM   in reply to mattaca
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    Matthew,

     

    I appreciate your response.

     

    This is close, but it doesn't remove the (BEG ITAL) (END ITAL). I'm trying to not make multiple searches

    user. Anyway with the GREP search to remove these at the same time?

     

    Thanks.

     

    Dave

     
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    3. mattaca,
    Sep 24, 2010 9:09 AM   in reply to dcrane37
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    Oh, my mistake, Dave. The Change To box should say "$1" (no quotes).

     
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    Sep 24, 2010 9:26 AM   in reply to mattaca
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    Matthew,

     

    That works beautifully.

    Thank you.

     

    Dave Crane

     
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    5. dcrane37,
    Nov 11, 2010 11:37 AM   in reply to dcrane37
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    Matthew,

    To make this work I had to wait for another department to create a Italic Character style

    in our system. they finally did that. Now I can't get the search to work anymore and can't

    figure out what's wrong. I can break the search down into smaller pieces and it works.

    I tried \(BEG ITAL\), \(END ITAL\), \(BEG ITAL\)(.+?) and (.+?)\(END ITAL\) and these

    searches are sucessful. But when I have all the whole string together Incopy tells me

    it can't find it.

    Ideas?

    Dave

     
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