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Article #19560Re: Check for Forced Line Break
From: Shane Stanley
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 03:11
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 03:11
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in article 1de6e492.-1@WebX.la2eafNXanI, Jay Fraser wrote: > I'm trying to check a paragraph to see if it contains a forced line break. > What I've got is: > > tell myDocument > set mySpecial to forced line break > repeat with myCounter from 1 to 10 > set myPara to paragraph myCounter of myStory > if myPara contains mySpecial then > set fill color of text in paragraph myCounter of myStory to myPink > end if > end repeat > end tell > > That seems to work for everything except forced line break. I tried adding "as > unicode text" to lines 2 and 4, but that didn't seem to help. > > What am I missing? Unfortunately the special characters behave differently when alone than when part of a longer string. The forced line break is, in fact, ASCII character 10, so use "set mySpecial to ascii character 10". -- Shane Stanley, sstanley@myriad-com.com.au
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f939a,5ea6e5ea8360f2ba X-Google-Attributes: gidf939a,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-05 19:37:38 PST From: Shane Stanley <sstanley@myriad-com.com.au> Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-xit-08!supernews.com!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!eusc.inter.net!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!WebX Newsgroups: adobe.scripting.indesign Subject: Re: Check for Forced Line Break Message-ID: <BA16609D.468C1%sstanley@myriad-com.com.au> Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 19:11:42 -0800 References: <1de6e492.-1@WebX.la2eafNXanI> Lines: 31 User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit