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• • July 15, 2015 at 2:44 am #76582
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Hi, is there a way (I’m assuming with GREP) to add a period to the end of every single footnote in my document?
    many thanks

  • July 15, 2015 at 5:53 am #76585
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    I can’t think of any way to search for “only text that is in a footnote.”

  • July 16, 2015 at 2:06 am #76614
    Theunis De Jong

    Member

    You can search for the Footnote Number code, but that will only locate the first character position, not the last. So I would suggest a Javascript:

    for (st=0; st<app.activeDocument.stories.length; st++)
      for (fn=0; fn<app.activeDocument.stories[st].footnotes.length; fn++)
        app.activeDocument.stories[st].footnotes[fn].texts[0].insertionPoints[-1].contents = ‘.’;
    

    This loops over all ‘stories’ (continuous text threads), and inside each story over all of the footnotes. The insertionPoints property points to possible cursor positions (i.e., ‘between’ characters), and the shortcut [-1] is to set it to the very last position. Setting its contents to something is the same as inserting a character on that position.

    • July 16, 2015 at 7:19 am #76622
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      Great script, Jongware!

  • July 16, 2015 at 2:46 am #76617
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    thank you. I also just got this reply from a colleague (in case it helps anyone else)
    You simply say $0. which means “found text” followed by a period. Obviously this depends on you really having what you find be accurate. You can search for any end letter of digit [[:alnum:]]
    that is located at the end of a paragraph $
    thus your search would be this [[:alnum:]]$

    This would mean that the last letter or digit in a sentence without punctuation would come up and then you do replace with $0. and it will keep what you found and add a period. If you want it only to search the footnotes, just have it search for only the footnotes paragraph style.

  • July 16, 2015 at 7:19 am #76621
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Ah! Rayzel, I did not think to limit the scope based on the paragraph style. Yes, of course that is a great solution…

    Slightly easier is to search for .$ which just means ‘the last character in the paragraph.’ Then you can replace with $0., as you suggested.

  • July 25, 2015 at 4:55 am #76877
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    Hi, if several lines or sometimes any punctuation, a research based on the para style with this regex:
    Find: [^.?!~e]\z
    Replace by: $0.
    Could be cool! ;-)

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