Comments on: Add a Digit with GREP Groups http://indesignsecrets.com/add-a-digit-with-grep-groups.php InDesignSecrets Blog and Podcast Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:44:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jongware http://indesignsecrets.com/add-a-digit-with-grep-groups.php/comment-page-1#comment-478150 Jongware Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:41:42 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=3384#comment-478150 I've complained at times about Adobe's implementation of GREP (they missed out on a few things I could use...) but here's a real funny one that works (note the dollar-less lookup!): (\w)(\w)(\w)\1\2\3 will find words of type "<b>barbar</b>ian", "r<b>inging</b>"; (\w)(\w)(\w)\3\2\1 will find "g<b>rammar</b>", "b<b>ruttur</b>a". You can make them as long as you want :-) and even scan for syllables: (\w\w)\1 finds "tra<b>inin</b>g", "supers<b>titi</b>ous". I’ve complained at times about Adobe’s implementation of GREP (they missed out on a few things I could use…) but here’s a real funny one that works (note the dollar-less lookup!):

(\w)(\w)(\w)\1\2\3

will find words of type “barbarian”, “ringing“;

(\w)(\w)(\w)\3\2\1

will find “grammar“, “bruttura”. You can make them as long as you want :-) and even scan for syllables:

(\w\w)\1 finds “training”, “superstitious”.

]]> By: Mike Perry http://indesignsecrets.com/add-a-digit-with-grep-groups.php/comment-page-1#comment-478110 Mike Perry Sat, 19 Sep 2009 19:30:36 +0000 http://indesignsecrets.com/?p=3384#comment-478110 GREP is absolutely marvelous! Is there anything it can't do? Know anyone in OS X development at Apple? Snow Leopard deliberately introduced only a few new features, which suggests that they'll be open to introducing many new features in 10.7. It'd be great if they radically improved the long-neglected text handling features that Cocoa offers developers. And one of the best new features would allow them to build GREP search and replace into virtually every text application. Done right, GREP S&R could useful features such as: 1. A prepackage set of useful S&R routines like those that come with ID. 2. The ability to share S&R routines between applications and between users online. 3. A built-in 'input this, output that' display as part of the S&R screen. Rather than mess with actual text and maybe get something wrong, a user setting up a GREP S&R could type text into one field and see the result instantaneously in another field. Change the GREP and the 'result' output updates automatically. GREP is absolutely marvelous! Is there anything it can’t do?

Know anyone in OS X development at Apple? Snow Leopard deliberately introduced only a few new features, which suggests that they’ll be open to introducing many new features in 10.7.

It’d be great if they radically improved the long-neglected text handling features that Cocoa offers developers. And one of the best new features would allow them to build GREP search and replace into virtually every text application. Done right, GREP S&R could useful features such as:

1. A prepackage set of useful S&R routines like those that come with ID.

2. The ability to share S&R routines between applications and between users online.

3. A built-in ‘input this, output that’ display as part of the S&R screen. Rather than mess with actual text and maybe get something wrong, a user setting up a GREP S&R could type text into one field and see the result instantaneously in another field. Change the GREP and the ‘result’ output updates automatically.

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