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GREP help

New Here ,
Sep 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021

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Since it seems to be a known issue that Title Case doesn't ignore prepositions, I was able to find a GREP style that fixed this. However, I need to take it one step further. I need to have it stop after the first period in the sentence and go back to the normal or original style??? Help if that makes sense.

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Sep 14, 2021 Sep 14, 2021

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Please share the grep style string you are using so that someone can try extending it if possible or maybe give a find/change alternative to it.

-Manan

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Sep 15, 2021 Sep 15, 2021

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With the character style being ALL CAPS

To Text: :\s\l|[-\s]\l(?!(f|s|he|nd?|o|y|rom|or)?\b)

This works for the entire line, but what I want is it to only be up to a point. In this case, a period.

 

The above seems to be pretty good for correcting the Title Case for InDesign.

 

Example: This is What I Want. It should look like this.

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Sep 15, 2021 Sep 15, 2021

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does adding \.  (backslash period) to the end do what you want?

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It doesn't seem to to what I want.

 

Also, to take my example a step further...

 

Ex: This is What I Want. It should look like this. And this should continue.

 

Does that make sense? I want it to be Title Case up to the first period (with my corrections for prepositions) and then Sentence case for the remainder of the paragraph.

 

By the way, I am NO GREP expert. So if you can point me to something that will help me get better, that would be great as well.

 

Thanks!!!

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Sep 15, 2021 Sep 15, 2021

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OK, I ran the expression on some sample text and see why that suggestion didn't work. I was thinking maybe a nested style to assign title caase for the first sentence, combined with a GREP style to fix the prepositions, but there is no option to use title case in style definitions, so that's a dead end.

Afraid I don't have an answer at the moment.

As for GREP learning resources, I highly recommend Peter Kahrel's book Grep In InDesign. https://www.amazon.com/GREP-InDesign-InDesignSecrets-Peter-Kahrel/dp/0982508387

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Thanks for the help and guide to other resources!

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