is it Possible to Generate Capital Letter for Every Group of Paragraphs using GREP ?

Question

Hi GREP Experts,I wonder if i can use grep to copy every first letter of first word in lines of paragraphs in Index and Make it capital and put it over the lines (paragraphs) of those words , no matter if the word start by capital letter or small letter, so it will auto genearate those letters as Index by letter key like dictianary Automatically, Please have a look in the picture - generated Capital letters is between Rectangles :is it Possible by GREP? and Thanks in Advance.

Peter Kahrel · Accepted Answer

if tried solution and worked by GREP to get rid of small letters :

Find : ^[abcdefghijklmonopqrstuvwxyz]+$
Change : EMPTY

You'd better narrow it down to one-letter paragraphs so that you catch only the section letters:

Find: ^[a-z]$

Change: empty

Change format: All caps

It's probably better to apply a separate paragraph style to those section letters so that you can add space before. So you would add AllCaps as a property in the paragraph style.

But that works only if the font you use supports AllCaps.

P.

Peter Kahrel · Answer

See here: https://creativepro.com/files/kahrel/indesign/index_skip.htmlThat's a script. With INDesign 2021 and later you can use this GREP query: Find what: (\u).+\r(\1.+\r)+\K(?=(.))Change to: $3\r

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