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March 22, 2024
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Underline Molecular formulae of Chemistry like H2SO4, H2O which subscript

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Underline Molecular formulae of Chemistry like H2SO4, H2O which subscript

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Peter Spier
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Peter SpierCommunity Expert
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March 26, 2024

Perhaps I'm not understanding what you want to do, but it seems to me as if you want to underline formulas EXCEPT the subscript characters.

If that's the case, I think a GREP style added to the paragraph style , as suggested by Robert, should do it. Since, as I recall, subscripts would only be digits and would follow only capital letters, you could look for (?<=\u)\d+ and set the style to turn off underline.

    Peter Spier
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    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
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    March 26, 2024

    You might actually need two GREP styles, depending on how you are applying the underline to start with.

    First style \u+\d* should find sequences of capital letters mixed with digits and can be used to apply the underline and then the second grep, as above, to remove from the digits.

      Peter Spier
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      Peter SpierCommunity Expert
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      March 26, 2024

      and as a further thought, the same expression used to remove the underline can be used to make the digits subscript...

        Anantha Prabu G
        Anantha Prabu G
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        March 22, 2024

        @suryakant256115023evw 

        Find: (?<=[A-Z]|[a-z])\d{1,2}
Change: Apply subscript
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        suryakant256115023evwAuthor
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        March 26, 2024

        Thanks for reply.

        OK. In Grep I have to find and change.   I thought there may be easy way which I don't know. 

        Currently I am anchoring rule.

        If Adobe add one button in underline options. If tick will give plane underline  if untick usual.

        Thanks

        Suryakant

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        March 26, 2024
        quote

        Thanks for reply.

        OK. In Grep I have to find and change.   I thought there may be easy way which I don't know. 

        Currently I am anchoring rule.

        If Adobe add one button in underline options. If tick will give plane underline  if untick usual.

        Thanks

        Suryakant


        By @suryakant256115023evw

         

        You can set is as a GREP rule in ParaStyle. 

         

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