Creating a GREP style to superscript after a letter

[Mark SK-M]

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

[winterm]

\bm\K2|3

Also covers m³

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

[Mark SK-M]

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.

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²3 m²

[winterm]

… 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

[winterm]

it must work.

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

Like this:

[vinny38]

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]

hi vinny

thank you, sure you're right.

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

[vinny38]

I must say I missed your correction too... [busy day too...]

Should work fine too.

Although I have the feeling that custom class characters are more efficient. But I'm quite unsure about that....

[Krzysztof5D99]

Hello, I know some time passed but I have a question.
How to modify this GREP to make superscript different set of characters?
I have "loremipsum1)" and want part "1)" to be in superscript.
I was trying with "\b[mck]?m\K[1)]\b but no luck, I'm completly green to GREP.

[Thunder-Lightning]

try 

\b[ckm]?m\K1\)

For some reasons putting a word boundary after the closing parenthesis does not work.

[Laubender]

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