Re: How to escape paragraph return and enter to InDesign
Re: How to escape paragraph return and enter to InDesign
- Subject: Re: How to escape paragraph return and enter to InDesign
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:15:10 -0800
- Thread-topic: How to escape paragraph return and enter to InDesign
Title: Re: How to escape paragraph return and enter to InDesign
Don't do that, each 'ASCII character' is a separate scripting addition call with overhead. Instead set a variable, or script property, to each.
For paragraph return you ought to be able instead to just to it this way, the best:
"some text" & return & "some more text"
'return' is an AppleScript constant. For a line feed, set a property at the top of the script:
property lf : ASCII character 10
and then use
"some text" & lf & "some more text"
If it really needs the "enter" key for column returns, try
property enterChar : ASCII character 3
and then
"some text" & enterChar & "some more text"
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Paul Berkowitz
From: Adam Bell <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 10:24:34 -0400
To: Applescript <email@hidden>
Subject: Re: How to escape paragraph return and enter to InDesign
\r and \n are ASCII characters 13 and 10 - try appending those.
On 2/10/06, David Wolfe <email@hidden <mailto:email@hidden> > wrote:
Hi all,
I need to script some text to be placed into a text frame in
InDesign, including a paragraph return <return key> and a column
break <enter key>. I'm placing those characters into a string
literal, but they're being converted upon script run to an
Applescript line feed (that rotated L-thing), which my InDesign plug-
in, inData, doesn't understand. I've tried the normal escape
sequences \p and\n, but those aren't working either. Does anybody
know how I can get the proper characters into inDesign with an
Applescript?
Thanks,
David Wolfe
settingPace
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