grep style to be applied before tab

[hendy_5450]

How can I get a grep style to be applied before the tab spacing?

[Peter Spier]

Wee need more information on the actual structure of the text to know for sure, but I suspect you don't actrually need a GREP style for this and an ordianry Nested Style applied up to one tab would be better.

[hendy_5450]

I'm trying to get all ing and amounts before the tab in bold
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[Peter Spier]

You need to come back to the fiorum to attach your image. Email replies don't work.

[hendy_5450]

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[Peter Spier]

It would help to see the non-printing characters, but it can certainly be done with nested styles.

[Richard-Elburg-Smit]

Use this

^.+?\t

as grep style and everything before a tab gets bold.

[Peter Spier]

Grep styles are less efficient than nested styles and should be avoided when unnecessary.

[Richard-Elburg-Smit]

Oke than a nested style

[hendy_5450]

but only the numbers get bold

the '1Tbsp' did not.

[Richard-Elburg-Smit]

For me it is working!

Between the number and the tekst is that a tab or a space?

[hendy_5450]

a tab.
it's working for all, bot not the the '1 Tbsp.'

[Richard-Elburg-Smit]

Remove the space before the first tab

[Mike Witherell]

Could you Show Hidden Characters on that one line that doesn't work? Maybe it has no tab in it?

[Peter Spier]

Could also be a soft return on the line above...

Please show hidden characters in ALL your screen shots.

[Richard-Elburg-Smit]

Soft return does not matter

[Peter Spier]

Soft returns do not create a new paragraph, so the count in the nested style (or a GREP style) does not reset. I have no idea why your text is showing bold after the soft return. It should not be unless something else is at work.

[hendy_5450]

it did work for the next one though

[Richard-Elburg-Smit]

remove the 3 spaces before the 1

[Richard-Elburg-Smit]

Or use the nested style, but than you cannot use soft return.

[Peter Spier]

If the nested style is set properly to trigger on the second tab then the spaces are not an issue, though they should be removed as sloppy typesetting.

[hendy_5450]

yes.
it worked now.
thanks all

[Richard-Elburg-Smit]

Or use this grep

.+\t

than the space does not matter

[Peter Spier]

Or use this grep

.+\t

than the space does not matter

By Richard-Elburg-Smit

It works in the case where there are only two tabs on the line, but not if there is another tab following text you don't want bolded.

In this case I think .+\t?\K.+\t? would be safer fro applying a style through two tabs.

[Peter Spier]

it did work for the next one though

By hendy_5450

Well, it shouldn't have. You have a tab starting each line, so you need to apply the bold style up to (or through) TWO tabs.