Append a character, e.g. add quotes around titles

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    • #70211
      ouroboros
      Member

      I’m looking for a way to add double quotes around any text with a paragraph style “Titles” applied. It’s easy enough to insert the open quotes to the left via Bullets and Numbering, but I cannot find a way to append the close quotes to the end. Is this even possible? Inserting/appending a character?

    • #70212
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      If you want to actually insert real quote marks, you could use find/change, with grep.
      Search for
      (.+)
      in the paragraph style, and replace with
      “$1”

      Such as:

      • #70213
        ouroboros
        Member

        Thanks, David. That works perfectly for that application, but the real trouble is that I want quotes around the titles within the document but not in the table of contents. So, “inserting real quote marks” doesn’t let me have it both ways… which I demand, of course!

        Is there not a way to “automatically” append a character to the end of text without “inserting real quote marks”? Like a bullet–but on the right side?

        Thanks.

    • #70214
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      You can put a “bullet” at the end of the line, but you can’t do it at beginning and end.

      You could sort of fake it with something like this, perhaps:
      https://creativepro.com/insert-a-special-character-with-grep-styles.php

      Or you could set up the table of contents style to “disappear” the quote marks. So they would be there, but you wouldn’t be able to see them.

    • #70215
      ouroboros
      Member

      Yes, that post of yours was one of the first things I played with! Filing that one for later use…

      How would I “disappear” the quote in the TOC?

      Thanks a lot.

    • #70216
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Make a character style that applies the color “None” and the size .1 pt. Then apply that style to quote marks using a grep style inside the paragraph style you’re using for the TOC.

      • #70218
        ouroboros
        Member

        Awesome. Not exactly what I was hoping for, but it certainly accomplishes what I need. Thanks!

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