🚀 go-pugleaf

I must say, I never expected that it was that difficult! It sort of
makes me feel vindicated though! :)

 
 
 
 
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Raymond Messier     Software Programmer
Practicewares Dental Supply
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fax.....: (916) 638-9307 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Ronnback [mailto:member@adobeforums.com] 
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 2:20 PM
To: adobe.scripting.indesign@adobeforums.com
Subject: re: [VB] Tough nut to crack, generate an index


A new message was posted by Richard Ronnback in

InDesign Scripting --
  [VB] Tough nut to crack, generate an index

Raymond, 

InDesign does not support grep searches so you will have to attack it in
a slightly different way. You could try to use the find method and
search for ~ which InDesign.

The result of the search will be an array. However, I think that
InDesign will not consider that tilde-sign as belonging to the following
word.

To get the word I think you have to loop through the array, grab the
character index, (index, meaning the character's position in the text
flow) increase it with +1 (so you end up in the following word)  and
then ask that increased character for it's parent word. Once you got it
you can do what ever you want with it.

If you add or remove characters you will have to loop backwars,
otherwise you will destroy you references.




On 04-01-15 22.36, in article
3A6F59D826A18A439BEAC32F8FAD4A2416F4AF@hq00s10024.practicewares.net,
"Raymond_Messier@adobeforums.com" <Raymond_Messier@adobeforums.com>
wrote:

> I need to generate an index in VB Script. So far I know what I have to

> do, and here is how I was figuring on doing it. I use InData to spray 
> the text in. Around the words I want to index I drop a glyph to mark 
> it. So, what I need to do is to do a search and replace for what is 
> between the glyphs and exchange it with an Index marker of some sort. 
> Has anyone done something like this? Basically what I want to do it...
> 
> So I would have text that looked like this
> 
> ~Important Header~
>  Here is the text for the important header
> 
> ~A somewhat more important header~
>  Here is the text for the more important header
> 
> For each word in document
> get word
> if word begin with "~"
> select from start of "~" to end character (1st instance) remove 
> special_chars insert index entry from selected text
> end if
> Next word
> 
> 
> 
> I cannot figure out how to do the replace or the index entry?! Can 
> anyone help?
> 
> 
> =========================================
> Raymond Messier     Software Programmer
> Practicewares Dental Supply
> voice...: (916) 638-8020   ext. 3108
> fax.....: (916) 638-9307
> email...: rmessier@practicewares.com 
> =========================================
> 



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