🚀 go-pugleaf

Hi,
this is a little complex but not impossible. What you are probably going to have to do (at least how I see it) is do a section start on every page. So every page has the black triangle above it in the pages pallet and keeps its own page number when they get reshuffled around. Now I can't really write the script, but you can take a look at what we use here. Make up a quick 8 page doc and run this, see how it does it and you can model a script after it. I think you can use the page "name" function to add the A and B. You will have 2 repeat loops, 1 for A pages that starts on page 1 and then you add 2 to rename the next page, then do a B loop, start on page 2 then add 2 to do page 4, 6, 8 etc.
Chris
chris.paveglio@clippermagazine.com

here is my sectioning start script:
PS you'll need an automatic page number text box on a master page to see the results I think.
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tell application "InDesign 2.0.2"
	if exists document 1 then
		display dialog "You can set up for a normal book, or a split run book starting on page 3." buttons {"Cancel", "Page 3", "Normal"} default button 3 with icon 1
		set MyPagesPick to button returned of result

		if MyPagesPick is "Normal" then
			tell document 1
				set myDocPageCount to count of pages
				repeat with B from 1 to myDocPageCount
					set myBodyPages to make section with properties {page start:page B, continue numbering:false, page number style:arabic, page number start:B, name:""}
				end repeat
			end tell
		else if MyPagesPick is "Page 3" then
			tell document 1
				set myDocPageCount to count of pages
				repeat with B from 1 to myDocPageCount
					set myBodyPages to make section with properties {page start:page B, continue numbering:false, page number style:arabic, page number start:B + 2, name:""}
				end repeat
			end tell
		end if

		beep
	end if
end tell