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I have a huge index that has italic words through out it.
The problem is that the italics doesn't carry through into the markers.
I have tried setting up a GREP but can't get it to recognize the italics.
Here's a sample of what I need in italics:
academic supervisor
attitude is </i>strong interest</i> in student progress, 153
definition, 16
description of functions and duties, 153
As you can see I have put <i> and </i> before and after the word, and the "hidden" character style makes these symbols small again but somehow the italics doesn't find its way to the words.
Any ideas, successful tips?
Thank you!
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</i>strong interest</i> looks strange, <i>strong interest</i> would be the expected format.
Then you need to set up a GREP style in the index paragraph styles that applies an Italics character style to
<i>.+?</i>
Peter
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Hi Peter,
Oups! Error from me!
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Dear Peter,
Thank you so much for your assistance.
I believe that I have it set up correctly.
But I can't seem to get it to work:
Do you possibly see what I have wrong? I keep looking for the error but can't find it.
Thank you for your help!
Irene
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Both variants (by pkahrel and Obi-wan Kenobi) working well.
irenes96057146 Are you sure, that your italic character style is defined correctly?
Or can you upload an IDML file (only with one textfield and your character and paragraph styles)
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All looks set up correctly, Irene. As pixxxel suggested, check that italics is enabled in the italic character style.
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Just for comment:
Once, a guy posted a similar question about "superscript"! …
All seemed correct! Really! … As here!
His problem came from the fact he copied the grep code from somewhere … with the hard-return behind, not visible!
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Thank you all for your help! I got it to work, so I am very happy right now!
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Still not working for me. Help please.
Ginger
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There are two styles shown in examples here including one hidden/invisible. How do you you create a hidden or invisible style?
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Heather, I explained how to set up Invisible/Hidden on your original thread:
https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/indesign-indexing-driving-me-crazy/m-p/12688874
~Barb