Bionic Reading Feature
(posted on March 1, 2025)
Question asked on the Adobe InDesign Forum:
In addition:
Bionic Reading InDesign Plugin [12/10/24]
The original Game [2023] was to apply a character style to the first half of every word.
In 2024, it was about a real Bionic Reading tool.
I always thought that imagining a global and complex Grep code was a waste of time.
Between us, it’s much faster and of course easier to create “small pieces”! Like below:

\b\w\b
(((?<=-)|\b)(\w{1})\w?)(?=(?3)\b)
(((?<=-)|\b)(\w{2})\w?)(?=(?3)\b)
(((?<=-)|\b)(\w{3})\w?)(?=(?3)\b)
(((?<=-)|\b)(\w{4})\w?)(?=(?3)\b)
(((?<=-)|\b)(\w{5})\w?)(?=(?3)\b)
(((?<=-)|\b)(\w{6})\w?)(?=(?3)\b)
(((?<=-)|\b)(\w{7})\w?)(?=(?3)\b)
…
Click on the pink picto (above, on the right side) to place the text to the clipboard.