THANKS: Re: Determining a Paragraph's Index
THANKS: Re: Determining a Paragraph's Index
- Subject: THANKS: Re: Determining a Paragraph's Index
- From: Rick Gordon <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:21:33 -0700
Thanksa to Kai, Shane, Stan, and all for your help. With it I was able to get the rest of the way through a script to parse its way though a document seeking paragraph styles associated with tables and change al of the adjacent associated paragraphs to specifically styled tables.
It's been a while since I've done much scripting -- then mostly in Quark -- and had gotten rusty with even some of the basics.
Rick Gordon
(trying to get back in the game0
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On 8/11/06 at 4:07 PM -0700, Stan Cleveland wrote in a message entitled
"Re: Determining a Paragraph's Index":
>On 8/11/06 3:27 PM, Shane Stanley wrote:
>
>> Get the index of the first character of the paragraph, and then get the
>> count of paragraphs of text from character 1 to character theIndex of the
>> story.
>
>That's brilliant, Shane. One must also consider that a selection may touch
>multiple paragraphs. To that end, and using your idea, this will give the
>the indices of the first and last paragraphs of the selection (which will be
>the same, if the selection involves only one paragraph):
>
>tell application "Adobe InDesign CS2"
> tell selection
> set firstPara to (count of paragraphs from character 1 ¬
> to character (index of character 1)) of parent story
> set lastPara to (count of paragraphs from character 1 ¬
> to character (index of character -1)) of parent story
> end tell
>end tell
>
>Stan C.
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RICK GORDON
EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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