Prices formatting question

https://carijansen.com/2009/07/…..9/tip-091/ !

(I must admit I'm not sure about the 'above the comma' part — perhaps you need an additional GREP that applies a huge negative kern over a comma which has a digit to its left and no more than two at its right.)

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant — although I shouldn't have said 'kerning', because you cannot get that (easily) into a Character Style. It's totally do-able with some negative tracking, though, and with the same net effect.

Apply a character style with a huge value (about -350) to the following

The tracking value depends on where you want the cents to line up, so first create and apply the style, then change the amount of tracking in the Character Style with Preview enabled.

My question is related to this post but not exactly.

I'm using Helvetiva Neue 75 bold for the prices. The $ symbol needs to be superscritpt & the last digits of a price (would like to insert an image but I dont have an URL). Also I don't the like the spacing (tracking) before or after that Helvetica leaves when a number “1” is used. So I created 2 different character styles:

• The $ symbol (superscritpt)
• If a number “1” used it will adjust the tracking to minus -50

Example $1999 or $11199. The $ symbol & the last 2 digits need to be superscritpt. There is no . (periods) in the price

I'm applying the following grep style in the paragraph style:

$ will apply the character style called $symbol (which is superscritpt)

I dont know what is the xpresion to find any instances number “1” and adjust the tracking to minus -50 & how to superscritpt the last 2 digits of the price.

I tried d{1} to find any instances of the number “1” but it is not the correct one. Grep is really powerfull but only when you know what xpresion to use.

Thanks

No expression needed, that would be

1

— and that's all!

thanks Jongware but how do I superscritpt the last 2 digits of the price if there no decimal point to identified them. The prices info is poured from a database system & the designers have to manually superscript the cents amount based information provided by the vendors.

Do I have to add a period to the price so grep can identified everything after the decimal point?

Or I was thinking something like:
after $ symbol is there is 6 digits then superscript the last 2. ^$1199⁹⁹

5 digits then superscript the last 2. ^$502⁹⁹

4 digits then superscript the last 2. ^$31⁵⁰

3 digits then superscript the last 2. ^$6⁷⁸

Look at it from another angle — or rather, direction. It's always the last two digits!

Try this:

dd(?!d)

which will match two digits and which are not followed by another digit (the test in parentheses).

Your suggestion is Brilliant! THANk U!

Bringing this back to life !

Let’s say I also have other numbers on page that would match \d\d(?!\d) and they shouldn’t change.
I try making sure there is a $ sign before the digit sequence as such (?<=\$\d)\d\d(?!\d)

Now it works for $2⁹⁹ but for some reason I don’t understand adding (one or more) (?<=\$\d+)\d\d(?!\d) won’t get anything… I would have thought $2⁹⁹ and $20⁹⁹ would have been caught.

Any idea ?

Hi – i have a pris on a seperate line. I want the last two digits to have a caracter style, but how do i do that?? I tryed to insert the grep style into my Paragraf Style for the price, but nothing happends.

I only need to open my Patragraf Style, go to “GREP style”, and insert “dd(?!d)” in the field

“Apply (My caracter Style)”
“To Text: dd(?!d)

.. and then it should work, or ….. ? But it dont.

Hi – i have a pris on a seperate line. I want the last two digits to have a caracter style, but how do i do that?? I tryed to insert the grep style into my Paragraf Style for the price, but nothing happends.

I only need to open my Paragraf Style, go to “GREP style”, and insert “dd(?!d)” in the field

“Apply (My caracter Style)”
“To Text: dd(?!d)

.. and then it should work, or ….. ? But it dont.