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i am a begginer but i guess this will not be a problem for somebody who is experienced...
i am working with a lot of files that have tags. tag for italic text, tag for centered text and so on, i manage to
get regular expression to work and to do all of these things with find/change dialog, but i would like to
automate all of it..
so for example i have part of the text that need to be italic that is enclosed in underscores like this _something that needs to be italic_
and i have this regular expression that takes care of it _[A-Za-z0-9,;\-\?\(&!\):'". ]+_
finds all the matches and applies the text style i want.
how to do that with script? thanks in advance.
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any hints?
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Use FindChangeByList.jsx (with 'grep' findType).
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ok, ok tried that, i opened FindChangeList.txt and changed one line and uncommented it
here is who it looks:
grep {findWhat:"_[A-Za-z0-9,;\-\?\(&!\):'. ]+_"} {applied paragraph style:paragraph style "boldanditalic"} {includeFootnotes:true} finad and change to ita
and it doesnt work
i tried some of the text examples and they do work...what is going on? is there any simple test to try?
(this regex works in find/change dialog)
thanks again for the effort
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I think you need to escape the backslashes:
{ findWhat : "_[A-Za-z0-9,;\\-\\?\\(&!\\):'. ]+_" }
Just a question, why not using this:
{ findWhat : "_[^_]+_" }
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oh, you are write your expression work like a charm "_[^_]+_"
the point is that i needed something fast and didnt know regex very well, and i am still a beginner..
also, this works only in find/change dialog but not when i try to run a script ;( here is the line that i uncomented in the FindChangeList.txt
grep {findWhat : "_[^_]+_"} {changeTo:"^_"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:true} description
i am not sure do i need stuff enclosed in third pair of parethesis...
anyhow, i save this file and ran the script from indesign...nothing happens
maybe it is a bug...i tried some of the lines that deal with text and that worked like a charm but grep dont.
thanks for helping me.
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ok, i made it to work with countless tries, and it works but only first time, and i undo and run script again it doesnt work (text does but grep dont)
i then need to restart indesign to make it work again...what a hell is going on???
how to make this work as it should?? thanks guys!
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Going back to your first GREP, search for this
_([A-Za-z0-9,;\-\?\(&!\):'". ]+)_
and replace with
$1
(with formatting in italic and/or your style) will do the formatting and remove the underscores at the same time. Only if you are totally sure the underscores are balanced, use
_([^_])_
-- if there is only one single unbalanced one, it'll mess up your text.
It should work correct in the interface; to put it into the findreplace script file, double the backslashes -- that's all.
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thanks everybody, i manage to get it work taking into account what was written here...it all comes down to this:
cs3 findchangelist script messes up indesign, i am using cs4 version and it doesnt give any problems
line that i am using for italic is:
grep {findWhat:"_[A-Za-z0-9,;\\-\\?\\(&!\\):'\".~b/]+_"} {appliedFont:"Adobe Garamond Pro", fontStyle:"Bold Italic", pointSize:13} {includeLockedStoriesForFind:false, includeLockedLayersForFind:false, includeHiddenLayers:false, includeMasterPages:false, includeFootnotes:true} //Comment
thanks again!
thanks, i am back to the old grep!