BBEdit rocks. It’s cool for editing single IDML files, like snippets, but I haven’t found a way to get it to work with an IDML package (without unzipping it). One of the best things about Oxygen is that it can open IDML files directly and give you access to their innards. Then again, I don’t have the most recent version of BBEdit, maybe it can open IDML files.

I also love BBEdit’s most humble motto:
“BBEdit: It Doesn’t Suck.” Wish all software could live up to that standard.

You may be right about the color coding. If the app can do Find on GREP, it makes sense it could apply formatting that way.

Your stylized code reminds me of open I open XML or HTML in BBedit.

Have you ever tired using BBedit to edit your IDML?

I wonder if BBedit uses some crazy form of GREP to color all of the tags.

Laurent-
Thanks for the link. There is so much good Creative Suite content en français, I have to revisit my high school French lessons so I can really read it. Maybe I should switch my CS4 to the French version to get started. Happily, GREP is our common language.

Also, I fixed the supersized art. The old version of Wordpress would automatically scale art to fit in the column. I think this new version requires us to manually scale it (which obviously I didn’t till now).

You can see an other example for JavaScript here (Marc Autret’s blog) :
http://marcautret.free.fr/geek/ikono/grepcolor/index.php
Best
Laurent

I myself just started to get my head around GREP & GREP-styles in Indesign (with the help of David amongst others ) for a book I’m formatting and the results I was able to get untill now are already really satisfying.

A few things that are on my wishlist for CS5 is the flexebility of the GREP Find/Change implemented in GREP Paragraph Styles – more specific that you can select text and ‘reorder’ it ($1 etc.)

And a less technical way to build the queries would be nice, also to make it more accessable.

And ofcourse a better way to make text disappear.

Thanks again for the article,
Mike.

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P.S. I viewed the article on both Firefox and Internet Explorer and it’s really wide – the advertisement banners at the top right are overlapping.