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Hi all
I have the reverse (sort of) for a query I raised a few months ago.
I'm starting to do more and more book interiors and have a requirement to add a scene break (asterisk symbol) before all untabbed paragraphs.
To explain: basically the author had been using untabbed paragraph styles to 'suggest' in-chapter scene breaks, but that 'scene break' now needs to be more obvious. Hence the need to insert a centred asterisk, with its own paragraph style, before all paragraphs that carry an untabbed paragraph style.
To illustrate...
This:
Needs to become this:
I'm embarrassed to say I'm still grappling with GREP for certain things, so any suggestions appreciated.
BTW, if it helps, the paragraph style I have available for targeting are:
Normal-untabbed (for the untabbed paragraph)
Scene Break (for the asterisk paragraph)
There may be an easy answer to this but, today, it's escaping my brain.
Thanks in advance
M
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Maybe this:
You would need another F/C to apply proper parastyle to the asterisk.
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Maybe this:
You would need another F/C to apply proper parastyle to the asterisk.
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* and Grep are the Past!
Play Smiley and Para style is the Future!!
(^/)
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Hi Winterm
Yep: that works!
Agreed: will have to do another find / change to apply the asterisk / scene break paragraph style.
Will also have to do a manual sift to remove those breaks that are inserted where they don't need to be (e.g.: after chapter headings / before first chapter paragraph).
But that's a great help.
Many thanks!
VBW
M
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You mean 'double' breaks? Oh, don't do it manually.
You can start trying in F/C Text tab: ^p^p change to ^p
If I got you right and this is that simple.
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If you don't like smileys and really want to play it with Grep, just copy an "asterisk para" and play this simple regex: it will insert the "*" para before each "Blue" para!
(^/)
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Hi Obi
I'll try that option out a little later today, too.
Thanks for the suggestions!
VBW
M
PS: Loved your work during the Clone Wars
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