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• • June 23, 2018 at 1:15 pm #104490
    Christopher Moss

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    I have a client who has transcribed 1000s of pages of 19th century correspondence in Word and would now like to make a book. The transcriptions often include a response in the margin from the reciever to the sender and these annotations have been tagged in the word doc with a #L. The book then would have a large RH column with the original letter and a small LH column with the annotated response along side – following the placement in the original document as closely as possible.

    Of course one could import the entire text to the large RH column and manually cut and paste the annotated section. What we both hoped to find is a plug in or script capable of at least populating the two columns correctly to save some of the tedium involved in importing 2000+ annotated letters.

    Any help is appreciated, and if this belongs in the script room and not here feel free to move it.

    Thanks

  • June 26, 2018 at 11:02 pm #104551
    Claudio Marconato

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    Hi Christopher, as far as I understand import your text is not a feature inside InDesign, maybe it could be possibile to write a script.
    I don’t know if it worth writing a script because it will be a “one shot” script, useless for any other kind of import.

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