Is there a way find endnote text markers with GREP?

[James_M_S]

The GREP code ~U will find an endnote reference marker in the text. What I want to do instead is find the beginning and ending endnote text markers in the endnote frame. My goal is to apply conditional text to certain endnotes using Find/Change.

[Scott Falkner]

If you want to apply GREP styles to endnotes use a dedicated style for your endnotes.

[James_M_S]

Thanks for the reply, Scott.

Is there a way to apply conditional text in a paragraph style or with a character style? Applying conditions to endnote text is my ultimate goal. It may be moot, because after playing around with it some more it looks the endnote text as well as the endnote reference can be hidden but will be lost.

The more basic question is whether there's a way to find beginning and ending endnote text markers with GREP. I'm still curious about the answer.

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

You can't find the endonote markers with Grep (or Text). But you can find endnotes, which amounts to the same thing -- provided that you used dedicated endnote paragraph styles, as Scott mentioned. You can then find tendnotes and selectively apply a condition. To find those endnotes, use the Grep tab and use ^.+$ to match the endnote texts.

[James_M_S]

Thanks, Peter. That work-around makes sense.

[James_M_S]

I'll reiterate what's in my reply to Scott. No one will probably want to apply a condition to endnote text. Experimenting with it, I found that the endnote text can be hidden but often can't be unhidden -- it gets lost.