TOC, erase the fullstop?

Ilija Lazarevic

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- April 14, 2020 at 2:13 am #1238193
  
  Ilija Lazarevic
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  Hello to everyone in the commmunity,
  
  I have a question concerning the TOC:
  
  – in the company I work for we use a periiod at the end of a chapter title, to emphasize it, for example:
  Invest smart.
  
  But in the TOC I don’t want Indesign to take over thew period. Is there a solution to this in Indesign, without having to click and erase the periods / applying different paragraph style only to them?
  
  I would appreciate your support, stay healthy!
  Ilija
- April 14, 2020 at 4:12 am #123821
  
  Dieter Stockert
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  You could use a nested style within your paragraph style where you have the character style set to no colour. That would mean the period is still there but it is not visible.
- April 14, 2020 at 4:28 am #123822
  
  Ilija Lazarevic
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  How can I do that though? How can I set a nested style only for the LAST character in the row?
- April 14, 2020 at 6:00 am #123823
  
  David Blatner
  Keymaster
  
  You could create a character style (I usually call it “disappear”) that sets the punctuation to None color (and maybe make it really small). Then apply that character style using GREP Styles with this: [[:punct:]]\s*?$
  That will find any punctuation at the end of a paragraph, even if there is a space (or more than one) after it.
  More on grep styles and disappearing here:
  
  5 Cool Things You Can Do with GREP Styles
- April 15, 2020 at 6:43 am #123845
  
  Ilija Lazarevic
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  Hallo David,
  
  thank you for your answer. I watched your video with the “dissapear” character style. But this GREP you sent didn’t work, maybe I made a mistake somewhere. I have found a solution for this specific problem, with this specific GREP: \.(?=~%), erasing all the dots that appear before a sixth squad. But it would of course be cool if I had a GREP that erases any puntuation at the end of the paragraph …
  
  It’s maybe important to mention that the paragraph style it a part of a TOC, which has this structure:
  
  1.- tab – Chapter Title(with the period) – sixth quad – Right indent Tab sixht quad – Page number
  
  I hope you understand the structure well.
  
  Many greetings, stay healthy
  Ilija
- April 17, 2020 at 3:28 am #1238774
  
  Peter Kahrel
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  Look again at David’s expression, where he has a code for ‘any punctuation’. Combine that with yours and you get [[:punct:]](?=~%)
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