Converting Nested Styles into Local Character Styles

Question

Hello, I am having some problems with paragraph styles (when I export to html or epub) where I use grep style.
To convert grep styles to local character styles

http://in-tools.com/products/scripts/

I use (Apply Nested Style). But here, my extra underlined words on the paragraph are not visible.
Does anyone know another solution? Thanks in advance for your help.

Peter Kahrel · Accepted Answer

In that case you use this one:

(function () {
  
  var indd = app.documents.item(0);

  function applyAsLiteral (gstyle) {
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = gstyle.grepExpression;
    app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = gstyle.appliedCharacterStyle;
    indd.changeGrep();
  }

  function grepStyleToNormal (ps) {
    var gstyles = ps.nestedGrepStyles.everyItem().getElements();
    for (var i = 0; i < gstyles.length; i++) {
      if (gstyles[i].name !== 'myChar') {
        applyAsLiteral (gstyles[i]);
      }
    }
    ps.nestedGrepStyles.everyItem().remove();
  }

  app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
  var pstyles = indd.allParagraphStyles;
  for (var i = pstyles.length-1; i >= 1; i--) {
    grepStyleToNormal (pstyles[i]);
  }

}());

Peter Kahrel · Answer

The In-Tools script doesn't deal with GREP styles, that's why it doesn't work for you.

Here's a script that converts GREP styles to character styles applied in the document. Be aware though that any character style applied directly will be overridden, and also that GREP styles are additive, i.e. they don't cancel each other out, whereas directly applied character style do cancel each other out: the last character style applied wins.

(function () {
  
  var indd = app.documents.item(0);

  function applyAsLiteral (gstyle) {
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = gstyle.grepExpression;
    app.changeGrepPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = gstyle.appliedCharacterStyle;
    indd.changeGrep();
  }

  function grepStyleToNormal (ps) {
    var gstyles = ps.nestedGrepStyles.everyItem().getElements();
    for (var i = 0; i < gstyles.length; i++) {
      applyAsLiteral (gstyles[i]);
    }
    ps.nestedGrepStyles.everyItem().remove();
  }

  app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
  var pstyles = indd.allParagraphStyles;
  for (var i = pstyles.length-1; i >= 1; i--) {
    grepStyleToNormal (pstyles[i]);
  }

}());

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