GREP Question

[Dative]

Hello all, I'm attempting to style a large amount of titles (formatted in the style shown below)

I need to change them into the following styles.

So it should end up looking like this

It's always in the same style, (number | title | country | date | creator) and I was curious if there was a way I could do this using GREP, I'm pretty sure it's possible, I just can't work out the right sequence. I suppose I would need to be able to specify which | I was referring to. Any ideas?

Thanks

[winterm · Accepted solution]

IMO, nested styles is enough:

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

More complicated if the "  |  " uses the same font weight (para style default!)!

(^/)

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

(^/)

[Jongware]

Do you know how to work with nested styles?

[Dative]

I do! I didn't realise you could specify characters though, I thought you could only use words/letters etc.

Thank you both!

I've realised a slight obstacle may occur at some instances in the book where no date or location is known. What would be the best way to circumnavigate this? A separate paragraph style for each instance e.g. one for missing date, one for missing location?

[winterm]

Dative  wrote

A separate paragraph style for each instance e.g. one for missing date, one for missing location?

The most obvious solution, I guess.

For entries with no date you can search using regex "find occurrences that do NOT contain 4 digits in a row". Something like this: ^.(?!.+\d{4})

Not sure if it's possible to automate find of missing locations.