GREP style every 5 line bold

[Wouter5CC8]

Hello!

I'm trying to make a GREP style to make every 5 line bold, I tried several ways but it is not working.
I have a paragraph style with a GREP, I tried two ways:

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 '(?<=\n.*\n.*\n.*\n.*\n).*$' 

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(^.*\n){4}^.*

Both of them are not working, can somebody help me? 🙂

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[Peter Spier]

A better way to do this is to make each line a paragraph and sety up a set of rotatiung paragraph styles.

First paragraph style has second paragraph style set as Next Style, seconha has third as Next Style up to fifth paragraph style which uses first paragraph style as Next Style.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

If those lines are short - how about a table with alternate rows filling? 

[FRIdNGE]

… Supposing a para with 5 lines separated by a soft-return:

(^.+\n)(?=(?1){3}.+$)

(^/)  The Jedi

[FRIdNGE]

… or:

(?<!\n)^.+

(^/)

[FRIdNGE]

… or use a nested line style applying the bold char style on the first line!

(^/)

[Peter Spier]

If the lines are really separated by forced line breaks (soft returns) you don't really need GREP at all. Ordinary nested styles should work.

None through 4 Forced Line Break

Bold through 1 Forced Line Break

Repeat as required if the paragraphs have more than five lines.

[Peter Spier · Accepted solution]

Sorry, yes, the first line bold, then four with none. Forgot it was bold on the first line, not the fifth.

This is still cleaner using using rotating paragraph styles, though. Perhaps only two, one for the bold paragraph and one for the remainder if all one one paragraph. Forced line breaks are usually a bad way to break text.

[Peter Spier]

InDesign also has Line Styles which would work here, and would potetially allow for edits that change the lenght of the first line (or width of the column).  Same dialog as Nested Styles.

[Wouter5CC8]

I think I managed to fix it, thanks for your answer.

I still have to Apply Paragraph Style & Next to al my text frames, is there a way to do that automatticly?

[Peter Spier]

Select the text (for threaded text just do a select all), then right-click the name of the first style to use in the Paragraph Styles panel and select Use [stylename] and next style.

If any of this makes you nervouse, make a copy of the file.

[Willi Adelberger]

If it is in one paragraph use line styles.