Thanks again for your precious help!

I think it might just be possible to try and write a single set of GREPs that differentiate for a dash somewhere in the text, but that’s really stretching ID’s GREP caps. GREP styles get applied “as you go”, and making them overly complicated would certainly slow down your entire system at some point.

For this simpler case, I would use a nested style; you can apply the text style “up to €”, so it doesn’t matter how many words are before it.

What if I decide to have only the Discount Price?
If I change from

[Sentence A] [€XX.XXX,XX] – [Sentence B] [€YY.YYY,YY]

to

[Sentence B] [€YY.YYY,YY]

the [Sentence B] is formatted as [Sentence A] (while the price maintans the right formatting) and I do not want that…
If you want, I can send you a .indd file as example…

Really really thank you in advance!

It works perfectly… How can I thank you?

“italic white” to “^[\\w ]+”; “italic white+und” to “€[\\d.]+,(?=\\d\\d -)”; “italic white apex” to “(?<=,)\\d\\d(?= -)”; “plain white” to “ – “; “bold black” to “(?<=- ).+,”; “bold apex” to “(?<=,)\\d\\d$”

(I hope all backslashes come through first time…)

Your suggestion is good and I also used it. The trouble is that the words “Original Pricee” and “Discount Price” can change occasionally. The data are fetched from an Excel file and sometimes the “Original Price” can be “Prezzo di listino” (it’s an Italian catalogue) or “Prezzo originale” or simply “Listino” and the “Discount Price” can be “Super Offerta” or “Prezzo Super Scontato”, etc… As you can see the words can vary in number so I cannot apply the rule on tha basis you suggest.

The standard line is something like that:
[Sentence A] [€XX.XXX,XX] – [Sentence B] [€YY.YYY,YY]
where Sentence A and B can have variable words and prices can be from thousands to hundreds of thousands… The only fixed character is the [-] between the two prices… And remember that the 2 digits after the comma should inherit the style of the previous digits but also be superscript (or apex)…

Hope that everything is clear

Thanks again for your nice support!

GREP styles are ideal when the text it should mark may occur anywhere inside a paragraph. However, since this is a simple list of style A for x words, style B for the next y words etc., nested styles are far more economical, and easier to set up as well.

Go to this style’s style definition, Nested Styles section, switch on Preview, and add the following definitions (creating the appropriate character styles when necessary):
italic through 2 Words
italic + underline through 1 ,
apex through 1 Words
white text through 1 Words
bold through 1 ,
apex bold through 1 Words

The single comma in the 2nd and 5th entries are what you actually have to enter, rather than selecting something from the drop down menu.

GREP Styles look great and exactly what I was looking for…

But here’s the challenge: I have to format a paragraph where I have 2 prices (full and discount)…

The two prices should be on the sme line, so here’s what I have:

Original Price €XX.XXX,XX – Discount Price €YY.YYY,YY

Now, I need that:

• [Original Price] is formatted with italic white text
• [€XX.XXX,] is formatted with italic white and underlined text
• [XX] is italic white underlined apex text
• [-] is white plain text
[Discount Price €YY.YYY,] is formatted with bold black text
• [YY] is bold black apex text

Tthe prices can vary from 1.000,00 to 100.000,00

Any idea of which code I should use?

Thanks in advance guys!