If you need to make automated changes to InDesign documents beyond what basic search and replace can handle, you need regular expressions, and a bit of scripting to make them work. This Short Cut explains both how to write regular expressions, so you can find and replace the right things, and how to use them in InDesign specifically.
Peter Kahrel, born 1 May 1953 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Trained as alinguist (MA and PhD) at the University of Amsterdam. I've lived in the UKsince 1994. I work as a typesetter and copy-editor for publishers in theUK, the Netherlands, and Germany. Until recently, I taught part-time atthe Linguistics Dept. at Lancaster University. Kahrel has been programmingInDesign with JavaScript since 2003.
Comments about oreilly Automating InDesign with Regular Expressions:
Definitivamente la guía recomendada para entender y aplicar GREP en InDesign. Definitively the best guide to understand and apply GREP commands in InDesign
1/3/2007
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Automating InDesign with Regular Expressions
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Comments about oreilly Automating InDesign with Regular Expressions:
Another GREAT publication from Mr. Kahrel. This Short Cut paired with his other reference tool Scripting InDesign with JavaScript is a very powerful combination for anyone wanting to work more efficiently in Adobe InDesign.
This Short Cut is also written at a level that non-programmers can understand. I hope we will see more Short Cuts from Mr. Kahrel very soon.