Indesign GREP capture only next line

Question

I'm trying to GREP-match words on a line starting with a specific word:

Contact Person   Walter Einstein
Company   ACME Corp
Website   acme.com

Here, I would want to match the first words before the tab after the line starting with Contact Person.

I need this to automatically apply a character style which applies a greater leading to insert some space between the Company Person line and the next one, which doesn't always read 'Company'.

In the paragraph style, I made a GREP Style to apply my Char. Style but it doesn't work yet.

It's something like this:

(?m)(?<=Contact\sPerson\t)(?:.*~b)(^.*$)`

So this should be a positive lookbehind to match "Contact Person" and the following tab (?<=Contact\sPerson\t), then an ignored group till the end of the line (?:.*~b), and then a match for the whole next line (^.*$).

I also experimented with (?s) Single line mode but couldn't manage to do this.

Answer 1

So i think I found the answer to why this is not working: InDesign GREP everything between two consecutive returns and a digit(or)return

Entering a GREP into a paragraph style is only affecting this one paragraph. If there are standard returns / breaks (no soft breaks) the GREP only searches within this paragraph.

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One alternative could be to apply the greater Leading to the respective line (in this case "Contact Person"..) and add a baseline shift to shift the whole line up again.

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If this paragraph contains multiple lines it is possible to shift the whole paragraph by applying different Character Styles:

First line:

• Character style: More leading (e.g. 22pt), Baseline shift: 11pt
• GREP: Contact\sPerson\t.*

Lines in paragraph after that

• Character style: Baseline shift: 11pt
• GREP: (?m)(?<=Contact\sPerson\t)(?:.*~b).*