Need help with GREP

[Rajesh300118088dvx]

Hi All,

I had a issue while using GREP, While replacing the manual bulleted paragraph to bullet styled paragraph,

I have used the below:

Find What:

^ ·\t(.+)$

Change to:

$1

Change Format: 

Main_Txt_Bullets (paragraph style)

When I replace by option "change" one by one all the instances change clearly

While using "change All" option, the initial letter of roman word followed by italic word changes to italics.

Kindly help me to rectify & suggest me what went wrong?

Screenshots below steps:

[Manan Joshi]

Can you share a sample InDesign document to test with

-Manan

[Rajesh300118088dvx]

Hi Manan,

Extremely Sorry for the late response!

Find the idml file attached.

RajeshGeorge

[Manan Joshi]

There is no file attached

-Manan

[Rajesh300118088dvx]

find the attachment

Regards
RajeshKG

[Manan Joshi]

I am not sure what is wrong here, but I can't see your attachement. Are you checking your post after posting, do you see the attachement?

-Manan

[Rajesh300118088dvx]

Hi Manan,

While attaching the file it show, after posting it didn't.

If you dont mind can i get your mail id

[Manan Joshi]

Upload it on a cloud service like Dropbox and share the public link here.

-Manan

[Rajesh300118088dvx]

Hi Manan,

Can you please check file from the one drive link below.

Sample.idml

[Eugene Tyson]

I think there's a oddity with this that I've noticed before, it's somehow capturing the italic style

You don't need all this

^ ·\t(.+)$

You just need

^ ·\t

[Rajesh300118088dvx]

Hi Tyson,

I planned to do both style replace & remove the "manual bullet with tab" at once, that's the reason, to used the expression.

If, I proceed change one by one it replaces clearly, It happens when i used change all option only.

Rajesh George  

[Eugene Tyson]

I don't know 

Would need to see the file.

To remove the bullets - remove the formatting info in the panel 

Then run the find replace again

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My guess is that perhaps the Bullet character in the bullet style perhaps has italic setting

And this is passing on the italic to the first character.

Which it shouldn't.

[Rajesh300118088dvx]

Hi Tyson,

Can you please check file from the one drive link below.

Sample.idml

[Eugene Tyson]

I see what you mean... how odd

The italic text is changing - that's got to be a bug

https://indesign.uservoice.com

In the meantime doing the 2 step works

as I described before.

I can't figure out why it's doing that. 

[Rajesh300118088dvx]

Hi Tyson,

Thanks alot of your effort!

RajeshGeorge

[Thunder-Lightning]

Yes, it is definitely doing something odd. It's like by removing two characters (the manual bullet and the tab) the character style 'italic' has been shifted by two characters. You can also see the the word 'bison' at the start of the italic text has lost the italic format on the first two letters.

[Eugene Tyson]

Yeh noticed that too - if you make the space before the italic, after the : . Then do the find replace all - it changes back to a regular font and only 1 letter of the italic.

So by removing 2 characters the italics is shifting per character.

Which has to be a bug.

I've never noticed this because I always do 2 step find and replace - find to add the paragraph style of just the bullet tab and apply the style.

Then find replace to remove the bullet and the tab.

It's strange behaviour.

[FRIdNGE]

Just Find: ^.\t(.)

(^/)  The Jedi

[Thunder-Lightning]

@FRIdNGE That's just a perfect solution. :red_triangle_pointed_up: