Re: Xpress 4.11 - further colour question
Re: Xpress 4.11 - further colour question
- Subject: Re: Xpress 4.11 - further colour question
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 08:29:13 +1000
On 26/4/02 11:49 PM +1000, Hans Haesler, email@hidden, wrote:
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I think this is rather due to a conflict between the offset of a character
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in the story and the position of the same character in the paragraph.
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These two values are not equal.
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When you get the offset of a character then the result is the number
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of characters which are before this character, but counted from the
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beginning of the story.
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In your example, the offset of the character "p" of "prod 4" is '21'.
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The offset of the tab in the same paragraph is '27'. But when you count
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the characters from the beginning of paragraph 4 then the tab is
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'character 7'.
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Because you address the range of characters inside of the paragraph,
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you must subtract the offset of the tab from the one of the first
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character: 27 - 21 = 6. But character 6 is the one _before_ the tab.
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I think the color must be applied beginning with the character _after_
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the tab. So we must add 2 to the result for the start character or
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subtract 2 from the offset of character 1 of the paragraph:
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---
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tell document 1 of application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
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activate
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tell current box
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repeat with i from 1 to count of paragraphs
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tell paragraph i
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try
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set offOne to (offset of character 1) - 2
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set offTab to (offset of every character where it is " ") as list
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set color of (characters ((item 1 of offTab) - offOne) thru -1) to "Red"
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end try
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end tell
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end repeat
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end tell
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end tell
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You can also ignore the offsets altogether:
tell application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
tell document 1
tell story 1 of current box
repeat with i from 1 to count of paragraphs
try
set color of text from character after (character 1 where it = " ") to
character -2 of paragraph i to "Red"
end try
end repeat
end tell
end tell
end tell
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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