GREP expression in paragraph style

Question

Hi,I’m try to find a GREP expression to include in a paragraph style to capitalise (via style GREP) some words. This is the pattern:lastName1 Name1, y Name2 lastName2. Year. I want to apply a character style to both lastName. The first one is easy, but I have problems with the second one. These are my tries:- (?<=, y )\u\w+ //finds Name2- (?<=y [^, ])\w+(?=\. (\d+)\.) //finds “astName2”- (?<=y [^, ])\u\w+(?=\. (\d+)\.) //No results- (?<=, y (\u\w+) )\u\w+ //No resultsI’ve tried many but failed. One thing to have in mind: lastName2 can have a hyphen in between (eg. Martinez-Ramirez). Thank you all

FRIdNGE · Accepted Answer

2 Grep Styles: ^[\w-]+,(\h)y(?1)([\w-])+(?1)\K(?2)+ (^/)  The Jedi

nicosh · Answer

Hi @Eugene Tyson thanks for your response, but it doesn't work for me. It finds any word before a dot but surprisingly no lastName2.

Before, to be brief, I haven't give information that now I believe important.

The text it's a bibliography so there is more information in each entry after the year, but it is variable, eg:

lastName1 Name1, y Name2 lastName2. Year. articleName, magazineName, pages.

Also there are entries with only one author mixed with two authors entries:

lastName1 Name1. Year. chapterName, bookName1, pages.

lastName1 Name1, y Name2 lastName2. Year. chapterName, bookName2, pages.

lastName1 Name1. Year. chapterName, bookName3, pages.

lastName3 Name3. Year. chapterName2, bookName4, pages.

I always can capitalise the first lastName of each entry via style GREP in paragraph style and use the find/change pannel for the second lastName with

\u\w+(?=\.\h\d+\.)

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