Grep style for finding words at the end of a line

Cindy Kelley

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- September 25, 2013 at 8:20 am #65508
  
  Cindy Kelley
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  Hi,
  
  I have an anal client who hates hyphenation and a line of text that ends with words such as “and”, “but”, “or” or any word smaller than four letters. I know, I know, this is going to make for some ugly paragraphs but this is what he wants.
  
  Can I use grep styles to fix these things in a similar way I use a grep style to fix widows?
  
  Thanks everyone!
  
  Cindy in Indy
- September 25, 2013 at 8:24 am #65510
  
  Cindy Kelley
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  I think I came up with a solution — I have replaced all the spaces following these words with a non-breaking space.
  
  If someone has a better idea or can make me a script to do this that I can use when I have this client’s jobs, I will send virtual hugs your way.
- October 13, 2013 at 3:34 pm #65747
  
  ‘toputadavida Putaoaldo
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  Hi,
  I’m on the side of your client! Here’s a simple grep…
  
  Create a char style ‘no break’ – select only ‘No Break’ on the Basic Char Formats tab.
  
  Edit GREP Style for your chosen para style
  Add New GREP Style, with ‘no break’ char style selected, To Text: and (?=\w+)
  [space][the word][space][before one or more words]
  
  Instead of space, you could also put \s for ‘any space character’ instead of just typing [space].
  
  You’d need to make a style for each small word you want to apply ‘no break’ to…
  
  Too many GREPs slow down long documents, so it may not be viable for all projects.
- October 13, 2013 at 5:45 pm #65749
  
  ‘toputadavida Putaoaldo
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  Just noticed that you don’t need the + in the grep – one word look ahead is enough.
- October 15, 2013 at 5:56 am #65797
  
  Matt Mayerchak
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  In a regular GREP, you can combine words as an OR expression with the vertical bar. So, for example, you could use just one GREP style for [and|but|or|for]. I have not tested this but it seems like it ought to work in this case.
- December 4, 2014 at 1:50 pm #72051
  
  Gavin Anderson
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  Here is a GREP for getting rid of orphans.
  
  Apply a NO Break character style (a style where the only thing specified is that No Break is forced on) to the following:
  
  (\w+ \w+)[[:punct:]]$
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