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The negative lookahead matches the search string only if it is not followed by the specified pattern. This searches the beginning of the paragraph GREP searches are case-sensitive by default.Ĭhoose Edit > Find/Change, and click the GREP tab.

You can enter the GREP metacharacters manually or choose them from the Special Characters For Search list. On the GREP tab of the Find/Change dialog box, you can construct GREP expressions to find alphanumeric strings and patterns in long documents or many open documents. Now that’s a timesaver.GREP is advanced version for find and change GREP expression can repairing and changing text for your adventage. WOW! All numbers within the Address paragraph format will automatically shift to Old Style, with no additional work on your part.

Not only is your existing text using Old Style figures, try adding some more text.

Change the Figure Style to Proportional Oldstyle and click OK until you are back to your document.

Give the new Character Style a descriptive name (I used “Old Style Figures”), and click the OpenType category from the list on the left.

No worries, just click the word after the words Apply Style, and click on the create New Character Style option:

Now we need to apply a Character Style to change all the numbers to Old Style, but we forgot to create it in advance.

Notice that the new style already conveniently shows d+, which means apply to one or more digits.

Click on Apply Style to Selection and Preview before clicking on GREP Style in the category list on the left.

Give your style a descriptive name (I called mine “Address”).

Hold the Alt/Opt key as you click the Create New Style button: Choose Window > Type & Tables > Paragraph Styles.

This time, select the text and create a new Paragraph Style.

Let’s start over again, and try the same thing with a GREP Style:.

It’s great, but if you add any more numbers, you’ll have to run the search again (and again and again):.

Click OK and admire the Old Style figures:.

Set the Search range (i.e., document, story, selection) and Change All.

In the Change Format Settings dialog box, pick the OpenType Features from the category list on the left, and change the Figure Style to Proportional Oldstyle.

Finally, click the Specify Attributes to Change button. Begin by clicking on the GREP tab, and then search for d, which means any digit.

Open up a document with lining figures:.

Technique Number 1: Find/Change with GREP

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for example, Adobe Garamond Pro, Adobe Caslon Pro, Minion Pro and Myriad Pro will all work. You get a bunch of them with your Creative Suite installation. One more note, make sure you choose an OpenType font for this tutorial. (But if you read this whole article, it’s really just a little work.) If you decide you want to use the Old Style in place of the default lining style, you’ll have a little work ahead of you. The “Old Style” figures on the right vary in height and position, and can have either ascenders or descenders. Both sets of numbers are set in Garamond Premier Pro 23/27, but the figures on the left are “Lining figures”, a modern style of numerals where all figures are of the same height and rest on the baseline. If you aren’t familiar with the term, please study the illustration below. I’m going to use the example of Old Style figures to illustrate the point.

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Instead of a Find/Change update that you have to initiate, these GREP Styles work automatically, as you enter and edit text. In my observation, they were ignored by most InDesign users, most likely because they didn’t appreciate the power that was suddenly at their fingertips. In Adobe InDesign CS4, GREP Styles made a fairly quiet appearance. (For more information on GREP Find/Change, visit “ Adobe InDesign: Removing Unwanted Spaces, Fast!” and “ Adobe InDesign: GREP to Replace Hyphens with En Dashes”. Document clean-up took a giant step forward with this addition. By using GREP searches, we could search for patterns instead of literal text/numeric strings.

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GREP (General Regular Expression Print) made its first appearance in Adobe InDesign CS3 as a major upgrade to the Find/Change dialog box. Posted on: January 26th, 2010 Author: barb.binder Category: Adobe InDesign Home / Adobe InDesign / Adobe InDesign: Assigning Old Style Figures through GREP Styles Adobe InDesign: Assigning Old Style Figures through GREP Styles