Grep or Nested style

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April 4, 2024
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I want to create a Grep/Nested style within inDesign of this text.
The text up to ___ should always be bold. This can be 1-2-3-4 words, everything after that regular.
And the ___ should be replaced with a space.

Submitted:
AADORP___Herv. Aakerk 10.00 ** **.
AAGTEKERKE ZELHEM___Ger. Gem. 18.30 , March 29, 19.00 Rev. A.P. Baaijens
AALBURG ZELHEM ARNHEM___Herv. Reformed Church 10.00 Rev. A.J.

This is what I want to have:
AADORP Herv. Aakerk 10.00 ** **.
AAGTEKERKE ZELHEM Ger. Gem. 18.30 , March 29, 19.00 Rev. A.P. Baaijens
AALBURG ZELHEM ARNHEM Herv. Reformed Church 10.00 Rev. A.J.

Any ideas?

How to

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Correct answer Eugene Tyson

So watched an amazing match last night, crazy goals and scorelines.

I am back at the computer this morning.

I have built some basic style for you to copy and follow

The first one has a style setup for you to change yourself

The second one I have the style setup

So on the first one - you can to adjust the Paragraph Style to add the Nested Styles
And then adjust the Underscore character style.

Your Test styles are in a folder called Test.

Attached is your test file to show how it's done.
As noted - you can't delete text with Styles - you can only 'hide' text.

Copying and pasting the text to another application or anything like that will copy over the underscores.

Patrick BrugginkAuthor

Known Participant

Thanks! It really helps me.

Patrick BrugginkAuthor

Known Participant

Is it possible to create an inDesign file and send it to me with the styles in it? I have never worked with Grep/ nested styles so I am searching.

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Eugene Tyson

Community Expert

I could but watching champions league football at the moment 😂

I made screenshots earlier, follow same as before

Create

2 character styles - bold and underscore

On the underscore option leave it as is don't change it have it as basic as when you make it change it later

Then in the paragraph style add the nested style

Bold up to 1 underscore (type the _)

Underscore up to 1 letter

The go to your underscore character style

Change th colour to none

Then reduce the tracking or horizontal scaling until you like it.

Patrick BrugginkAuthor

Known Participant

Thanks for the replies. I would like to see this as an automatic process. So I am posting a text like this:

AADORP___Herv. Aakerk 10.00 **.

AAGTEKERKE ZELHEM___Ger. Gem. 18.30 , March 29, 19.00 Rev. A.P. Baaijens

AALBURG ZELHEM ARNHEM___Herv. Reformed Church 10.00 Rev. A.J.

And without doing a search and replace o.i.d. I want to get this:

AADORP Herv. Aakerk 10.00 ** **.

AAGTEKERKE ZELHEM Ger. Gem. 18.30 , March 29, 19.00 Rev. A.P. Baaijens

AALBURG ZELHEM ARNHEM Herv. Reformed Church 10.00 Rev. A.J.

Peter Spier

Community Expert

Nested styles cannot delete text, only format it. You could minimize it's size by adjsting the horizontal scale to a very small amount and adding some negative tracking while also changing the text color to None, but to actually delete it you must use find/change.