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Re: INDESIGN CS2: Altering a Text Selection
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Re: INDESIGN CS2: Altering a Text Selection


  • Subject: Re: INDESIGN CS2: Altering a Text Selection
  • From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:55:05 -0700

That does not work in InDesign. It was the first thing I tried.

Thanks

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On 8/10/06 at 2:41 PM -0400, Eric C Saunders wrote in a message entitled
"Re: INDESIGN CS2: Altering a Text Selection":

>Rick Gordon wrote on 08/10/2006 at 02:30:27 PM:
>
>> I am confused on how to accomplish the task of truncating (or
>> otherwise altering) the current text selection. For instance, take
>> the example where I would want to determine if the last character in
>> the active selection is a return character, and recalculate the
>> selection so that the return character is no longer part of the selection).
>
>> The following code snippet does not work, nor does any variant I've
>> tried specifically extracting references or object references. Can
>> someone please point me in the right direction?
>
>> tell document 1
>> set selection to text from character 1 of selection to character -2
>> of selection
>> end tell
>> --
>
>I do not have Indesign to test, but this works in Quark:
>
>set selection to (characters 1 thru -2 of selection)
>
>Eric
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