GREP style problem

[Anoeek]

Hi,

I'm new to GREP styles so bear with me if I ask stupid questions

I'm trying to make some GREP styles for a large document, and two of them worked fine. Now I want to make a GREP style which applies a certain Character style to every caption with images or tables. They all start with either "Figure x." or "Table x.", where x is a digit. After that, a small text with the title or caption of the thing follows.

I made the following GREP style, but it is not working:

^(Figure|Table)[ ][\d][\.][ ]+.+

The weird thing is, if I put this expression in the Find/Change GREP query, it does work because it finds all the right texts. If I apply it to my Paragraph Style however, it does not work.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks so much in advance!

[winterm]

This should do the trick:

^(Figure|Table)\x{20}\d+\.\x{20}.+

Edit:

this one also will work:

^(Figure|Table)[\x{20}\d\.]+.+

That said, there may be more slightly different versions.

[Anoeek]

Thanks for your response!

Unfortunately, it didn't do the trick...

[winterm · Accepted solution]

It must.

Something wrong on your side.

Which version of InDesign? If 14.02, did you apply the patch regarding GREP?

Also show as a screenshot with your *non-working* text, with hidden (non-printable) characters visible.

[Anoeek]

Ah, since I literally found out about GREP styles 2 hours ago I didn't know there was a patch for version 14.0.2.

It is working now (also my own GREP style yay) after installing the patch!

Thanks for the help

[winterm]

Nice, you're welcome

[Mike Witherell]

winterm and all,

Here is an small question: after you have applied the hot patch to InDesign, how do you know it has been done already? Does it signify this anywhere?

For example, I move among many installs of InDesign and forget which one I patched.

Mike in Maryland

[winterm]

Hi Mike,

In your InDesign installation folder, Required subfolder, there must be TextWalker.rpln plugin. Check its creation date. If it is different (newer) then neighboring files, your ID is patched. Not an elegant solution, I know 

BTW, another thing that bothers me is InDesign installation path in that vbs Adobe provides. It is hard coded to Program Files. What if one installed Indesign, say, in C:\Adobe\InDesign? Like I do from the beginning of times? Solution: open CopyPlugin.vbs in plain text editor and change %PROGRAMFILES% to %systemdrive% (two times, for 32-bit and 64-bit versions, letter case doesn't matter).

[Laubender]

winterm  wrote

…What if one installed Indesign, say, in C:\Adobe\InDesign? Like I do from the beginning of times? Solution: open CopyPlugin.vbs in plain text editor and change %PROGRAMFILES% to %systemdrive% (two times, for 32-bit and 64-bit versions, letter case doesn't matter).

Hi winterm ,

similar scenario on my side:

I had installed InDesign CC 2019 14.0.2 on drive F: and the vbs script found no way to reach it.

So I did three things:

1. Quit InDesign CC 2019

2. Did a backup of the old TextWalker.rpln file in my application folder on drive F:. Adobe InDesign CC 2019 > Required

3. Removed the old TextWalker.rpln file and moved the new TextWalker.rpln file from the CopyPlugin.zip > CopyPlugin > win64 folder to the Required folder.

Restarted InDesign and tested a GREP pattern that failed before successfully.

Note: I'm on Windows 10.

Regards,
Uwe

PS: Thanks to Peter Kahrel who gave me the hint.

[winterm]

Hi, Uwe,

sure, since all that script does is updating TextWalker.rpln file, it's easy to perform manually. I bothered to modify the code of vbs just to keep original UI of the whole process.

[winterm]

BTW, there’s nothing really wrong with your original regex, unless the number of your Figure/Table is always just one digit.

If not, just add a plus sign after digit inclusion group:

^(Figure|Table)[ ][\d]+[\.][ ]+.+

Since there’s absolutely no point to create separate inclusion group for each character, feel free to include all them in the same group, using unicode notation for a space (safer). That’s from where my second regex (in post 1) comes:

^(Figure|Table)[\x{20}\d\.]+.+