GREP question

For my understanding: what are "first graph style" and "body styled graph"?

'Graph' probably stands for 'paragraph', right?

The answer to you question is yes, but you need several steps. Here's why: you can search for any Header Styled Line¶, but then you're stuck: you can't get to the following paragraph. To find the paragraph following the head, you'd have to search for Header Styled Line\r. ( \r is the paragraph break). That dot at the end is part of the grep and stands for 'any character', here the first character of the next paragraph. And because that will be a different paragraph style, you won't find anything.

Here's the two-step method:

1. Search \r in your header styled paragraph style, and replace with \r###

2. Now all the paragraphs following the header-styled line start with ###

3. Search ^### replace with nithing, and apply Body Style paragraph style

Peter

Hi,

3 regex into a Multi-Find/Change:

Regex 1:

Search: \r

Replace: $0@

Search format: Head style

// Use a character not otherwise used! //

Regex 2:

Search ^@

Replace format: New style

Regex 3:

Search ^@

replace: nothing

Obviously, with MFC: only one click! 

Hi Peter,

Sorry, I don't see your answer ! 

@Peter: I don't see why anyone would say "body style paragraph style". There is no "body" in Indesign. You got text boxes (or frames) and objects. You can apply styles to paragraphs or characters or objects. Please don't confuse people trying to help.

@Obi-wan: Multi-Find/Change?

'Body' as in 'body text', as opposed to secondary text. That's normal usage.

See:  http://www.automatication.com

MFC is a very helpful script written by Martinho Da Gloria with which we can make multiple search-replace in ID.

Otherwise, x Regex (in a "set") but only one click!

Peter Kahrel wrote:

 

'Body' as in 'body text', as opposed to secondary text. That's normal usage.

Hmm...Never heard of both. But my mother language is German, so this can happen. I searched Google and learned that body text is also main or primary text. But what is secondary text? However, "body text" may be common, but "body style" is not. Paragraph styles are paragraph styles, no matter if they are for body text, secondary text or even footnotes.

@Obi-wan: I see. A script. Will have a look. Thanks.

Secondary text is e.g. tables, notes, references, quotations.

'Body style' is just shorthand for 'a paragraph style for body text'.

Hi Sue,

Peter forgot the third step (see my proposal). We thought and wrote exactly the same process - which is a "classic" one. Peter uses ###,  I prefer to use @ (if not otherwise used). With MFC, you have only 1 click to do to run automatically the 3 regex one after the other.

Obi-wan Kenobi wrote:

 

Hi Sue,

 

Peter forgot the third step (see my proposal).

Actually, Peter incorporated your steps 2 & 3 together in his step 2, but for some reason it's not working for Sue as it should. My bet would be that she's eithger limited the scope of the search improperly, or she left some Find Format in place that shouldn't be there.

Hello Peter,

This does not work for me too! It is the reason I use 3 regex.

OK, I tried it here and get the same failure in both CS5 and CS6 when combining the steps. Now that I think about it, it actually does seem correct, though, that it should behave this way. Leaving the change field blank and adding formatting is really telling ID you want to change the formatting only.

Fine! We can go to sleep! 

Multi-Find/Change have changed my approach in ID. It is so much easier and faster associate simple (and intuitive) regex rather than find the "Holy Grail" in one!