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Creating a GREP style to superscript after a letter

Forum|Forum|6 years ago
May 20, 2019
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Hi,

I'd like to create a GREP style to change the number 2 to a superscript after the letter m

50 m², balkon 24 m²

Thanks

Mark

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Laubender

Braniac

Hi Mark,

in case you are on InDesign CC 2019 version 14.0.2 make sure that the following bug fix is installed:

GREP search fails to find all the matching instances in long InDesign documents

This fix will not delivered through the Adobe Creative Cloud Desktop App.

Regards,
Uwe

winterm

Braniac

it must work.

What ID version you're using? Could you show Grep Style tab of your para style?

Like this:

vinny38

Braniac

Hi Winterm (long time no see!)

Your grep says :

"catch 2 if followed by (c)m"

or

"catch 3"

Make a character class [23] instead:

\bc?m\K[23]

To go further, you could add a word boundary at the end in order to secure a little bit more. Unlikely to get such cases (I had hard time finding an example...), but well, it's just a metacharacter to add:

And maybe think about square kilometers, or millimeters, why not ^^

\b[mck]?m\K[23]\b

winterm

Braniac

hi vinny

thank you, sure you're right.

it's been a damn busy days, obviously, too busy… I should take a break.

winterm

Braniac

\bm\K2|3

Also covers m³

\bc?m\K2|3 will pick up centimeters, too.

M

Mark SK-MAuthor

Participating Frequently

Thank you for your prompt reply.

I've tried the GREP style as suggested however it changes all the 2's and not just the 2 after m.

Ultra Geniş Dış Kabin

²3 m²

winterm

Braniac

… or try this safer approach with parenthesis:

\bc?m\K(2|3)

or, if you don't care about cubic and centimeters, just the basic:

\bm\K2

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