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It works fine for me! [ Tested before I post it! 
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What I didn't say [obvious for me!] is that you need to include 2 "Nested line styles" in your para style to make this regex work! 
Try this:
.../*
0138_Poetry2Lines_MichelAllio.jsx
Script written by Michel Allio [2017/04/03]
See: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2298581 [ Poetry book text formatting ]
*/
app.doScript("main()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Poetry 2 Lines! …");
function main()
{
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To say it in other words I need to have all lines longer than the text box right justified.
It should be easy to script. This AppleScript (OSX only) right justifies any paragraph in the selected text with more than two lines.
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tell application "Adobe InDesign CC 2014"
set p to object reference of every paragraph of selection
repeat with x in p
if (count of lines in x) is greater than 1 then
set justification of x to right justified
end if
end repeat
end tell
So it does this:
You could also consider a negative first line to left indent, which wouldn't need a script. Something like this:
The full text is left justified.
The option you suggest is not what I'm looking for, because, being a poetry book a lot of lines are short and they have to be left justified.
It's only a minority of them that, only when they exceed the textframe, they need to be right justified...
See attached picture as reference.
Poetry means one line per worm, so one para!
If a worm has too much chars for one line, we'll have 2 lines!
So, as no hyphenation, a script could compare the baselines of the first char/last char!
If different, it could catch the first first char of the 2nd line and add 2 right indent tabs + a bracket + a space!
Simple as The Force playing with Javacript! 
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I like the translation of "Vers" to "Worms"... 
Maybe Verse would be more appropriate ^^
Anyhow, I think this is a very interesting question...and I'm looking forward to see you coming up with a great script. Piece of cake for you, cher Obiwan ^^
I was wondering if it couldn't be achieved by a GREP query catching the extra words after a given number of characters (lets say 50)
Something like (?<=^.{50,51}\w+\b)\s\w+
But I can't make it work 
I fully understand this would not be as clean and accurate than a script, but for my personal information, I'd love to understand why this query fails to catch anything...
Hi Vincent! I'm a great fan of Dune! It remembers me Tatooine!
(^/)
Well! Tested on "Les Fables de La Fontaine", 1 click with Grep!
(^/)
I have to underline that I'm a complete newbie in scripting and grep styles...
I tried to do the apple script that rob day suggested me and it seems to work.
I also tried vinny38 grep expression but with no luck (and being a noob I have no idea why
).
Obi-wan Kenobi grep is almost perfect but it has a little problem: it puts the "[" sign before the first line instead to put it before the second one...
Am I missing something?
Can I ask you some link for a poor noob to learn how Grep styles expressions work?
Thanks in advance...
It works fine for me! [ Tested before I post it! 
]
What I didn't say [obvious for me!] is that you need to include 2 "Nested line styles" in your para style to make this regex work!
Try this:
/*
0138_Poetry2Lines_MichelAllio.jsx
Script written by Michel Allio [2017/04/03]
See: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2298581 [ Poetry book text formatting ]
*/
app.doScript("main()", ScriptLanguage.javascript, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, "Poetry 2 Lines! …");
function main()
{
var myStories = app.activeDocument.stories.everyItem().getElements(),
S = myStories.length;
while (S--) {
var myParas = myStories
.paragraphs.everyItem().getElements(),P = myParas.length;
while (P--) if ( myParas
.appliedParagraphStyle.name == "myPStyle" && myParas
.lines.length > 1 ) myParas
.lines[1].contents = "\u0008\u0008\[ " + myParas
.lines[1].contents;
}
}
Just change myPStyle by your para style name!
(^/)
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