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I currently use a GREP style, "\w-\w" to catch all hyphenated words such as "4-year" or "end-to-end" but I'm not entirely confident as to how robust it is and where it might fail and catch something unintended. What winds up happening is InDesign catches 4-y" or "d-to-d" and applies my no break style to the text. While this seems to be working fine, I'm about to apply this to a MUCH longer document and I want to make sure I'm not going to encounter any unforeseen issues because this seems too expansive a search for GREP to work with. Does anyone have a snippet they use all the time to handle this sort of thing?
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Why not test your text with a GREP search first? If that seems fool-proof, allow it to become a GREP style.
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Why a no-break over hyphens? There is a non-breaking hyphen for that.
You can use GREP to find-and-replace: search for "(?<=\w)-(?=\w)" and replace with .. uh, the GREP code for a non-breaking hyphen. (Look in the "@' dropdown menu.)
The advantage is that if it gets applied to something unexpected, you can simply replace that instance with a regular hyphen.
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Did you ever get confirmation about this? I use the same style but after Googling there seems to be a lot of more complicated GREP styles which makes me wonder if my simple style is not adequate.
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Why not just apply the GREP style and see what happens? You can use Find/Change to search for the character style and see where it is applied. You can also alter the style to include a highlight colour to make instances easier to spot.
See, even if someone gives you the answer you are looking for, I hope you would check to see that it accoomplished what you want. How do you plan to do that without checking the entire document?