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On Nov 21, 2003, at 9:36 AM, Gilles Le Pors wrote:

> I didn't explain myself correctly. My problem is that if I use the 
> "Insert Glyph" palette to add an ornament character to my document, 
> copy and paste it in the "Find What" field of the "Find/Change" dialog 
> box, InDesign displays the number 3 in the field and finds both the 
> ornament and the number in the text. If I use Applescript to search 
> for "<E00D>", the script doesn't find the ornament character� unless I 
> have previously inserted the character using Applescript.
>
> Do you (or anyone else) know anything about it? (provided that what I 
> wrote makes sense).

Yes, I see the problem now, which is not really a scripting problem I 
guess. We may need to drag someone like Tom Phinney over here to 
answer.

Anyway, I switched to Adobe Caslon Pro and tried what you said, and 
indeed the character is listed in the palette as x0033. Odd, and I 
can't explain it. Same thing in CS, although there I see a "3" appear 
in the story for a fraction of a second before turning into the 
ornament.

In CS I used AppleScript to get the properties of the ornament and a 
"3". There's a difference: a new-to-CS property called "open type 
features". For the "3" it returns {} and for the ornament it returns 
{1.869770349E+9, 1}. I don't have a clue what this property means -- 
the documentation says it's a "list of long" describing "open type 
features". Ole or Alan?

Anyway, that means there's a workaround in CS, although "open type 
features" doesn't seem to be exposed to the search command. You could, 
however, use a whose clause: 'every character whose contents = "3" and 
open type features = {1.869770349E+9, 1}'. No help with 2.0.2, but 
maybe something to look forward to in CS.

(Thomas: this is all at 
<http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?13@@.2cce67ca/1> if you have a 
chance to take a look.)

--
Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au>