Hello again! I love these forums - everyone is super helpful!
I am looking for answers, help, guidance etc on making a grep express that will keep the following pieces of text together:
Touch dry: 1 minute (+20 °C / +68 °F) --> no break
and then a separate expression for:
Full Cure: 30 minutes (+20 °C / +68 °F) --> no break
I have tried copy/paste into the grep options box directly from the linked text file - but even that doesn't seem to help.
Pretty much I don't like how the text auto flows with the possibly of breaking those chunks of text. I would much rather at least have (in the attached screen shot) "full" start on the next line - but without any hard or soft returns. Using GREP/Character/Paragraph Styles. So it just automatically does it and I don't have to worry about again....
as always - any help or feedback would be fantastic!
-C
1 Correct answer
Your GREP expressions are not working because they contain characters that serve as functions in GREP. ( + / )
In order to get GREP to read them as characters, you have to use an escape character before each one. \
Like this:
\(\+20 °C \/ \+68°F\)
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Your GREP expressions are not working because they contain characters that serve as functions in GREP. ( + / )
In order to get GREP to read them as characters, you have to use an escape character before each one. \
Like this:
\(\+20 °C \/ \+68°F\)
ou also can make a regular character style that sets the No Break. Then, just select the text you don't want to break, apply the style, and voila.
Benefit: No GREP programming/scripting needed. And you can use it anywhere on any text, even to control bad hyphenation breaks. It's flexible.
Drawbacks: it doesn't automate repetitive strings like a GREP style can.
Choose which method gives you the benefits you need.
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