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Bob Bringhurst - Adobe — 2008-11-12T15:26:51

Go to the user forum for this kind of question:

www.adobe.com/support/forums

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2008-11-12T15:08:13

Anyone know how to write an expression for finding footnotes. The company
I work for chooses to manually put in footnotes (not use the footnote feature)
and when I get a word doc with the footnotes in they don't come in
superscripted.

I'd be finding = a space + a number (and could be up to 4 #s separated by
commas)

example: "Portfolio 3,4,7" or "document 2,1"

and want to just change formatting to superscript (or char style superscript)

Never used GREP so it is still a foreign language to me.

Kevin

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RorohikoKris — 2008-09-25T05:35:53

Might be of interest for grokking InDesign GREP expressions:

http://www.rorohiko.com/greptutor/GrepTutor.html

It's fun, interactive, and speaks InDesign's GREP dialect pretty well.

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GQID — 2008-07-24T06:24:44

I have successfully isolated formats using GREP. It takes several steps. The
key to it is that some spaces are followed by a character of the same format,
and some are followed by one of different format. I search for space plus any
character of the same format, then substitute a placeholder character for the
space. Then search for the remaining spaces of the same format--those are
the ones followed by a different format--and substitute a different
placeholder character. Do the same for the 2nd format, and you end up with
formats that begin and end with unique combinations of placeholders. I've
only done this for separating 2 formats. And of course, the original text needs
to be clean and consistent

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2008-07-14T06:53:22

Another good GREP resource here:

http://jetsetcom.net/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=1

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blr_36 — 2008-04-02T00:15:06

I think, there is an optimization bug in the regex engine. The

(?:(?<=,)\d+)|(?:\d+$)

expression found only the first digit(s) after a comma in the line, the rest of them and the number at the end of line never found. Of course, it found the digit(s) at the end of line, when there is no comma-then-digit sequence.

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Armadillo Graphics — 2007-11-30T03:49:35

InDesign should have style option for consecutive upper case characters since acronyms for example stand out in body text. This is my workaround using GREP and Character style.

GREP
Find what: \u{2,}
Change to: empty
Find format: empty
Change format: Character Style: Caps

My Caps character style in body text is usually 93-95% size with optical kerning and +10 tracking.

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2007-10-29T14:06:15

Yes, I just looked at this PDF. It's a 47-page document with detailed examples, troubleshooting, and quick reference information. Here's the contents:

Contents
GREP by Example ..................................... 2
The Basics ................................................... 4
Wildcards .................................................... 9
Locations ................................................... 14
Repeat: Sequences of Characters ........... 16
Referring to Wildcards: Back-Referencing ............................................... 20
Finding Formatted Text .......................... 22
Replacing with Wildcards ....................... 22
Splitting Up Complex Expressions ......... 28
Applying Styles with GREP .................... 31
Apply Formatting to Part of What You Find: Look Around .................................. 33
Look Behind You ..................................... 35
Look Around ............................................ 36
Advanced Techniques .............................. 39
Chaining Expressions .............................. 40
Leftovers ................................................... 43
Troubleshooting ....................................... 43
Resources .................................................. 45
Quick Reference ....................................... 45
Acknowledgments .................................... 47

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2007-10-28T13:59:33

PDF Book on GREP and ID, $10:
http://safari.oreilly.com/9780596517069

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2007-10-24T15:43:33

Here are a few good GREP resources:

http://www.night-ray.com/regex.pdf (PDF download)

http://www.regular-expressions.info

http://www.indesignmag.com/idm/issues.html#old (download Issue #17)

Leave a comment if you're aware of other good GREP resources.

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2007-10-22T03:11:42

It also appears that it's not possible to use conditionals in the replace as
in some other programs.

Eg

Search for (a)(b)?
Replace with $1(?2:c)

Other programs:
ab -> ac
a -> a
abc -> acc
acb -> acb

InDesign:
ab -> a(?2:c) (so it's not recognising the conditional in the replace)

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Bob - Adobe Writer — 2007-10-15T07:45:12

I don't think it's possible to search for formatting within a GREP search string. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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MercuryG — 2007-10-15T07:22:19

the one important feature omitted from the GREP search article is how to
search for formatting within a string (such as how to replace a space
between a bold word followed by an italic word.)

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Synaps1s — 2007-07-14T06:55:21

For special characters like [ or ] add \ before the Character. The following example would look for any text between [ and ]
Just put this in Your Find / GREP Window:

(\[) *.*?\w*(\])

You can find a great Article about Regular Expressions along some Tutorials on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_Expression