GREP for Titles

[dumitrus56120735]

Hello!

My name is Dumitru.

I work on design on books, and thus trying for a while to compose a GREP for subtitles to ease mai work load, but no success.

I have the Paragraph Styles and I can do the Character Styles for these subtitles with no dot “.“ at the end of them, of course.

I believe all my best was: ^[\(\u+\l+\d]\.\)+r but it did not work. At least I figured I need one GREP for each subtitle, because my subtitles are all different!

Examples of what subtitles I need is this:

• Body text.... body text...body text...

          subtitle: I. subtitle

         Body text.... body text...body text.

• Body text.... body text...body text...

          subtitle: A. new subtitle   

          Body text.... body text...body text.

• Body text.... body text...body text

          subtitle: 1. new subtitle

          Body text.... body text...body text.

• Body text.... body text...body text

          subtitle: a. new subtitle

         Body text.... body text...body text.

• Body text.... body text...body text

          subtitle: 1) new subtitle

         Body text.... body text...body text.

• Body text.... body text...body text

          subtitle: a) new subtitle

         Body text.... body text...body text.

• Body text.... body text...body text

          subtitle: (1) new subtitle

         Body text.... body text...body text.

• Body text.... body text...body text

          subtitle: (a) new subtitle

         Body text.... body text...body text.

I felt I am close but I just could not make it. So, I said I will ask people who really know this otherwise wonderful function of InDesign, GREP.

Thank you.

[SJRiegel]

If I understand your setup, you could do this with Paragraph Styles, each having the next set up as Next Style.

You can then select the whole thing, right-click on the Style that comes first, and choose Apply {style} then Next Style.

As long as your paragraphs follow a predictable pattern, you can style the whole thing at once.

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Dumitru,

What you seem to need is Grep find/replace to apply para styles to paras with no period at their end and a specific numbering at their beginning.

If right, I suggest you to play with auto-numering para styles!

If manual numbering, here're find requests:

Find: ^[A-Z]\.\h.+[^.]$

Replace by format: A._ParaStyle

Warning: maybe interferences with next one!

Find: ^[IVX]+\.\h.+[^.]$

Replace by format: I._ParaStyle

Find: ^\d+\.\h.+[^.]$

Replace by format: 1._ParaStyle

Find: ^[a-z]+\.\h.+[^.]$

Replace by format: a._ParaStyle

Find: ^\d+\)\h.+[^.]$

Replace by format: 1)_ParaStyle

Find: ^[a-z]+\)\h.+[^.]$

Replace by format: a)_ParaStyle

Find: ^\(\d+\)\h.+[^.]$

Replace by format: (1)_ParaStyle

Find: ^\([a-z]+\)\h.+[^.]$

Replace by format: (a)_ParaStyle

To avoid real styling problems (and if right!), I'ld use conditions too [see later!]

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