GREP issue

[colinrogger]

Hi.

I have a paragraph style with the following GREP setup. However, for it work, It requires I have a space before each underscore in my file name.

Is there a way to slightly alter the GREP to make it possible for the file to be named "Peter Zumthor_Zumthor Atelier_1986 01.jpg" and still have the automatic return and hiding of the underscore.

Thanks!

[Peter Kahrel]

With a GREP style you can't insert any text or codes such as paragraph breaks: al you can do it apply formatting. There are ways to set things up that suggest that characters were inserted or changed, but that's trickery with conditions and hiding character styles. I don't think that that would work for you.

You should probably use a GREP replacement.

[colinrogger]

Hi Peter,

Yeah I was reading that that is the case. That is why I was using a moving trick for the paragraph break. The underscore character style was set up with the following settings - 

Tracking: 10000

Horizontal scale: 1000%

That is how I was managing to do achieve the result on the right side of the image. However, as soon as I have removed the space before each underscore, the trick with the character style didn't work anymore. Instead it just did the GREP applying the invisble style, which is:

size: 0,1

Horizontal scale: 1%

Vertical scale: 1%

Character colour: None

[Peter Kahrel]

Clever! You force the paragraph to break on those spaces.

Maybe apply the underscore character style to the underscore. That seems to work fine when I try it.

Why do you use a GREP style for this, by the way? I think it just adds overhead.

[colinrogger]

Thanks, Got some help on it from someone on the forums, super helpful! 

Honestly, this just seemed to work, although this is the first time I am trying to automate my workflow in indesign. 

The project is collating a bunch of images, 350 into a book. Then we wanted to captions to be auto created based on file names. Plus we wanted each part of the file name on a different line. So that is how we landed on this solution. 

[colinrogger]

Sorry forgot to add the images. These are the types of files we have. and this is how we wanted it to end up looking 

 

[FRIdNGE]

Aha! This thread really remembers something!!!

(^/)  The Jedi

[colinrogger]

Thanks again!

[Peter Kahrel]

Some details, maybe?

[colinrogger · Accepted solution]

Sorry, Basically that it is not possible to do the Apply style in the way I want without a space before the underscores. The space is essential to ensure the character styles are applied to the correct elements found using the GREP style.