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InDesign 2.0 Questions


  • Subject: InDesign 2.0 Questions
  • From: Jay Young <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 13:33:05 -0500

Hi,

I have 2 InDesign 2.0 questions. First, is there an easier way to add a
character after another character without overwriting anything? I would
like to do something like:

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tell application "InDesign 2.0"
tell text frame 1 of document 1
copy return to after character -1 of last paragraph
end tell
end tell
-----------------------------------------

but it errors. But if I replace the last character with itself and then
add the new character it works (as in the code below). But there's got
to be a better way than this, I would think.

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tell application "InDesign 2.0"
tell text frame 1 of document 1
copy character -1 of last paragraph & return to character -1
of last paragraph
end tell
end tell
-----------------------------------------

My second question is:

Is there a way in InDesign 2.0 to set up something like a Delimit
Table? In Quark I can do something like:

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tell application "QuarkXPress"
activate
set every delimit item of delimit table 1 to can be contained
in word set delimit item (ASCII character 9) of delimit table 1 to
not word member
--code stuff
end tell
---------------------------------------

This way I can make words split by tabs instead of spaces. A much
quicker way to set styles, etc. to certain words in the whole document
instead of going through each paragraph one at a time.

Thanks for your help!

Jay
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