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in article ef8e3b9.12@WebX.aaQKaf7vad4, Olivier Berquin wrote:

> I think that it's more complicated to address an item and copy/paste/move it,
> rather than to create it !
> 
> 
> This is your approach:
> --
> tell application "InDesign 2.0.1"
> �tell document 1
> ��duplicate text frame "Caption" of master spread 1
> ��move result to page 2
> ��set geometric bounds of text frame "Caption" of page 2 to geometric bounds
> of text frame "Caption" of master spread 1
> �end tell
> end tell
> --
> 
> 
> This is mine:
> --
> tell application "InDesign 2.0.1"
> �tell document 1
> ��make text frame at page 2 with properties {geometric bounds:{"0 mm", "0 mm",
> "10 mm", "10mm"}, label:"Caption"}
> �end tell
> end tell
> --
> 
> 
> 
> What do you think about that ? It is perhaps subtle... But, I know, each
> person works with these practices !

Yes, you're right -- provided the rest of the attributes are the default.
But the frame might have a stroke, or a different fill color, or different
settings for first baseline alignment, or vertical justification, or text
insets, or rotation... It's in these cases that a duplicate can be simpler
(but not a copy/paste).

But it's really a matter of what you think suits the particular situation.
The main point I was trying to make is that the methods that suited in
QuarkXPress won't always suit in InDesign.

-- 
Shane Stanley,  sstanley@myriad-com.com.au