I am laying out a document that includes small verse numbers. I want to search for instances when an orphaned verse number appears at the end of a line, so a soft return can be inserted before it. (see attached screenshot)
Is there a way to do this in the Find/Replace panel or through GREP?
I don't think we can find end of lines using Find/Change panel. A script could help, are you open to using a script? Another question, how do we find this verse number? Are all the numbers in the text to be identified as verse numbers or the one's that are number and have a specific character style applied to it?
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The end of a line is not a location you can find via a GREP search. You can do end of paragraph or beginning of paragraph but not end of line. I'm thinking you could create a No Break character style, then do a GREP search for something like this
\d+ [\l\u]+ that will find any digits followed by a space and a string of letters and then apply the No Break character style to it. It will include elements not at the end of the line but it shouldn't really affect them adversely.
Have you considered putting in a non-breaking space just after the verse numbers? Perhaps with a character style also to define the width of the non-breaking space?
This is a whole lot better solution than adding a forced line break. Down the road edits could cause short lines whre you don't want them withthe forced breaks, but not with the non-breaking spaces.
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