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May 2, 2017
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Add asterisk before certain paragraph styles. GREP solution?

  • May 2, 2017
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Hi all

I have the reverse (sort of) for a query I raised a few months ago.

I'm starting to do more and more book interiors and have a requirement to add a scene break (asterisk symbol) before all untabbed paragraphs.

To explain: basically the author had been using untabbed paragraph styles to 'suggest' in-chapter scene breaks, but that 'scene break' now needs to be more obvious. Hence the need to insert a centred asterisk, with its own paragraph style, before all paragraphs that carry an untabbed paragraph style.

To illustrate...

This:

Needs to become this:

I'm embarrassed to say I'm still grappling with GREP for certain things, so any suggestions appreciated.

BTW, if it helps, the paragraph style I have available for targeting are:

Normal-untabbed (for the untabbed paragraph)

Scene Break (for the asterisk paragraph)

There may be an easy answer to this but, today, it's escaping my brain.

Thanks in advance

M

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Correct answer winterm

Maybe this:

You would need another F/C to apply proper parastyle to the asterisk.

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winterm
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Legend
May 2, 2017

Maybe this:

You would need another F/C to apply proper parastyle to the asterisk.

Obi-wan Kenobi
Legend
May 2, 2017

* and Grep are the Past!

Play Smiley and Para style is the Future!! 

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