add a paragraph style within a paragraph style

Question

Hi there,

I have a small issue when making a catalogue of over 200 pages: can I put a Paragraph Style within a Paragraph Style?

There is a specific piece of text in my document, that appears every so often, which automatically gets a specific paragraph style (I use a plugin for this). However, when this text with 'Paragraph Style A' contains a digit, I want it to change to 'Paragraph Style B'.

Is this in any way possible?

I know you can nest a character style, or use GREP to add a character style, but 'Paragraph Style A' specifically contains a Paragraph Rule in a certain color, so Character Style won't do the trick as 'Paragraph Style B' has a different color Rule, which can't be adjusted with just a Character Style...

Robert at ID-Tasker · Accepted Answer

I apologize, English is not my mother tongue and by 'tags' I just referred to the way they 'look' like tags. So I just meant the green underlined parts, like '3y+' is a tag. But I didn't mean it technically.

No problem.

So those are separate pieces of text / information?

Can you / do you want to join them together?

My approach was - they are separate - @rob day treat it as a single paragraph...

Both approaches have positives and negatives - but I think you need to clarify and decide which way is better for you...

Willi Adelberger · Answer

A paragraph can have only one single paragraph style as it name says. But you can use Character Styles in a Paragraph Style. You can do it in an automatic way with GREP and Nested Styles.

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