Dash Plus Sixth Space GREP

[rob day]

Can anyone help me with a GREP for making dashes consistent? I want all dashes to be sixth space, Em dash, sixth space:

[tonks_the_auror]

I think I can help.

Step 1: In your document, select the em-dash (or whatever it is you want to change). Open the Find/Change window, make sure GREP is selected, and paste what you copied into the "Find what:" field.

Step 2: Type the 6th space, Em dash, 6th space in your document, then select this and paste it into the "Change to:" field

Example: FInd/Change em-dash will look like this:

You can save GREP queries, so you can save one for each combination of dashes and spaces that you want to change.

I hope this helps. I'm not a GREP expert, but this does work.

[Eugene Tyson]

You might try

\p{Pd}

or

\p{Dash_Punctuation}

Should catch any kind of hyphen or dash.

[Eugene Tyson · Accepted solution]

Further GREP

Find

\s*\p{Pd}+\s*

 Replace

~%~_~%

[Eugene Tyson]

Suppose it will find 2005-2025 (year ranges) or minus numbers -1 -10 etc. 

Might not be an issue. Maybe it can be tweaked further.

[FRIdNGE · Accepted solution]

\h*[~=~_]+\h*

(^/)  The Jedi

[rob day]

Thanks @FRIdNGE !

[Anantha Prabu G]

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