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vanillasoap
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September 16, 2017
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Grep style between punctuations

  • September 16, 2017
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For my footnotes (Chicago manual style) I want to add a grep style for the book titles.

The following is an example where the bold text should be applied:

Brekke, Nils Georg 1938, Per Jonas 1929 Nordhagen, and Siri Skjold 1958 Lexau. Norsk Arkitekturhistorie: Frå Steinalder Og Bronsealder Til Det 21. Hundreåret, Oslo: Samlaget, 2008. 336.

How would the grep style code look like? All book titles start with ". " and ends with ", " following the published year.

Thanks in advance

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Correct answer winterm

Couldn't get amaarora's regex to work, so here's mine:

(?<!\d)\.\s\K[^,]+

Seems to work on your exact sample, not sure about the whole picture, though.

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pixxxelschubser
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pixxxelschubserCommunity Expert
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September 19, 2017

vanillasoap​,

no more interest?

Jongware
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JongwareCommunity Expert
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September 17, 2017

I suggest to not use a GREP style for this and manually apply the character style where needed. GREP styles are great, but they are also dumb as a bag of rocks.

The "manually" part is only to distinguish from "fully automatic". You can still use any appropriate GREP in Find/Change to locate a next possible candidate title. The difference is that you are in control, only applying it where needed.

    winterm
    wintermCorrect answer
    Legend
    September 16, 2017

    Couldn't get amaarora's regex to work, so here's mine:

    (?<!\d)\.\s\K[^,]+

    Seems to work on your exact sample, not sure about the whole picture, though.

    amaarora
    amaarora
    Inspiring
    September 16, 2017

    Hi,

    Thanks winterm. Mine dint work and now i know why(just learnt the correct working of the "any letter" wildcard and the use of "\K"). Below is the result of my expression.

    Thanks once again.

    -Aman

    winterm
    winterm
    Legend
    September 16, 2017

    Hi Aman,

    You're most welcome! BTW, my regex could be a bit more compact: \D\.\s\K[^,]+

    Logic remains exactly the same.

      amaarora
      amaarora
      Inspiring
      September 16, 2017

      Hi,

      Not really good with GREP but i think the below expression should solve your problem

      Do look out for cases in which this fails.

      -Aman

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