Highlight text present in the last parenthesis

Question

I want to apply character style named RED using GREP Styles/Nested Styles but only till the first : from the start and the last parenthesis. What grep should I use ?

Here is the sample text:

Trans of line: This is the (translation) of the line taken from the book (Tintin) comic book. Also take care of colon: coming in the text. (Tintin-Cigars of Pharoah)

Second Scenario:

Translation: This is the (translation) of the line taken from the book (Tintin) comic book. Also take care of colon: coming in the text. (Tintin)

Eugene Tyson · Accepted Answer

You can do it with a Nested Style (file attached) but it's heavily rule based - so the structure needs to remain the same in terms of brackets and colons - as I based the style on through 1 : which makes it work

You could do with Combo Nested Style and GREP Style

Your nested style looks like this

And the GREP Style looks like this

\(([^()]+)\)\s*$

Attached file combo nested grep style

~~Or do it all as a single Grep Style~~

This is a greedy grep and not working

\(([^()]+)\)\s*$|^.+?\:

Or as separate GREP styles

First part of sentence

^.+?\:

Last part of sentence in brackets

\(([^()]+)\)\s*$

Best to do as Nested Style and Grep combo in my opinion

You can use 2 greps in the one style

Achieves the same thing

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