Can't find quote marks and endnotes in GREP at same time

[Tom Tomasko]

I need to insert a hair space between a closing quote and an end notereference using GREP.

I can find the closing quote mark by using ~}

I can find an endnote reference number (which is no longer a digit) with ~U

But putting the two together like this ~}~U finds nothing.

Why does this not work?

Thanks,

Tom

[Manan Joshi]

Hi @Tom Tomasko,

I tried this and got the same results as you, this seems to be a bug. What is interesting is that the following works

~}~F

So the endnote reference is found using the footnote reference. However, if you just try to find endnote using ~F it fails, it works only in this combination. Also the pattern endnote followed by closing quote is found using ~U~} so looks like a bug to me.

-Manan

[FRIdNGE]

Bug known! …

A way to play the game is to first "mark" the endnote char with a condition:

Find ~U

Replace by: "temp" condition

Then:

Find .(?!\X) + no condition

Replace by: $0~<

Finally trash the "temp" condition.

(^/)  The Jedi

[Tom Tomasko]

Thanks Jedi, but I see a problem in your method. You are looking for every endnote reference and changing it to a temp condition. But that wipes out all the endnotes. But this method seems to work.

Find: (~U)

Change: xyz$1  Now all endnotes start with xyz, whether or not the endnote is preceeded by an closing quote but the end note number remains.

Find: (~})xyz

Change: $1~<  Now all closing quotes with the temp condition after have a thin space in between the quote and the endnote.

This however leaves any endnote reference number that does not follow a closing quote with the xyz temp condition. Since this temp condition does not appear anywhere else in the text (something weirder than xyz should be used) you:

Find: xyz

Change: nothing