michaelschutz

We can do it manually now, with a manual Find & Replace that uses an expression. But the Styles feature would do that automatically. So the desire is to be able to save one or more expressions, then attach those to a Text Style. So when that Style is applied to a block of text, the GREP expressions are automatically evaluated and the style is applied to the matching text.

Re-visiting this to say that in 2.2 there's one improvement to Find & Replace included: scope and result count. Maybe bringing some hope (though I know it's a bit of a reach to go from F&R scope to GREP styles) that they are still on their way in the (near?) future? Mike Perry, you're right with that comment, and even having this would be a huge time-saver for me. That would be one big step on the way to actual text style implementation.

Since there's a new v2 request forum and these ones are being archived, I encourage everyone to go keep the request alive over in the new forum. I started a new thread for this topic there.

There's been a longstanding request in the Publisher v1 forum to add GREP into Text styles. I was excited to see the announcement about v2 but saddened to see this didn't make it in. Since the feature isn't there (yet? ) and since those v1 forums are being archived, I'm bringing the request into this new forum to keep it alive. For a specific kind of technical document I work with, there are dozens of types of replacements that need to happen on the text in new docs, within one text style. Having the GREP expressions in the style definition makes all of these replacements happen in one click of applying a style, rather than a laborious effort to do them individually. I understand that this isn't a mainstream feature, but it's so, so helpful to those that need it. Since the engine is already in the software, it seems like it shouldn't be a huge deal to be able to attach GREP search/replace expressions into a text style. I could be wrong, of course, as I'm not a developer. But I (and many others) would very much appreciate this coming in a new update.

I just saw the announcement for v2 and got the suite, as I'm fully using the whole suite now, having moved away from Adobe. Alas, still no GREP Styles in Publisher v2.0.0 that i can find, either in a feature list or in the TStyles dialog box. Maybe in a forthcoming update...

Another +1. I just recently discovered the whole suite, and am seriously considering moving away from Adobe CC because of it. Having GREP/RegEx styles in Publisher is a dealbreaker right now, though. I have one type of document I work with that is highly technical, and I have about 25-30 GREP styles (could probably reduce that if/when I get better at writing the styles), and I need to create/update hundreds of documents of this type. Find/Replace just isn't feasible for time reasons; it has to be baked into a style so it's all automatically applied. I have to say, though, I did test out the expressions just by copy/pasting them from ID, and I really like the feature that lists all the matches in the sidebar. Makes it easier to see exactly how the RegEx statements are working - some of them are pretty complex. If it can become a feature to have this not just be Find/Replace, but part of text styles, that may seal the deal for me to become an Affinity customer for the whole suite.