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• • February 20, 2016 at 6:40 pm #82141
    Ari Singer

    Member

    Hi, I’m not familiar with writing scripts so this is my question.
    I found an excellent script by Peter Kahrel (www.kahrel.plus.com) which takes all footnotes and converts it side-notes by anchoring text frames with an object style applied to place it at the side of the page. It’s a very powerful script, but it is not precisely what I’m looking for.
    I would like to create “side-headers” that give a glimpse of what the adjacent paragraph is about. So I would like the script should take every instance of text which has the “SIDE HEADER” paragraph-style applied, cut it out and paste it in a small text frame that should be anchored in beginning of the following paragraph (which has the “BODY TEXT” paragraph-style applied), and stay at the side of that text.
    Basically, it’s exactly what the script does, just that instead of selecting the footnotes, I want it to select any text that has a certain paragraph-style, and anchor the frame in the following paragraph.

    I would be very grateful to anyone who could help me with this.

    Following is the original script:

    //DESCRIPTION: Convert InDesign’s footnotes to dynamic sidenotes
    // Peter Kahrel – http://www.kahrel.plus.com

    //#target indesign

    // Only CS4 and later
    if (parseInt (app.version) > 5 && app.documents.length > 0)
    {
    try {foot_to_side (app.documents[0], “sidenote”)}
    catch (e) {alert (e.message + ” (line ” + e.line + “)”)};
    }

    function foot_to_side (doc, stylename)
    {
    var side_frame, endnote, footn, endnote_link, reference;
    var dimensions = sidenote_coordinates (doc);
    var win = create_message (40, “Sidenotes”);
    win.show();
    var styles = check_styles (doc, stylename, dimensions);
    var stories = find_stories (doc);
    for (var j = 0; j < stories.length; j++)
    {
    if (stories[j].footnotes.length > 0)
    {
    footn = stories[j].footnotes;
    for (var i = footn.length-1; i > -1; i–)
    {
    win.message.text = “Story ” + String (j) + ” — ” + “note ” + String (i);

    // must delete the note marker here to ensure that fit() works ok
    delete_notemarkers (footn[i].texts[0]);

    // Create a frame at the footnote reference’s position
    side_frame = add_frame (footn[i].storyOffset, styles.o_style, dimensions.width);

    // Move the footnote’s contents to the new frame
    endnote = footn[i].texts[0].move (LocationOptions.after, side_frame.insertionPoints[0]);

    // Apply sidenote text style
    endnote.applyParagraphStyle (styles.ps_numbered, false);
    if (endnote.paragraphs.length > 1)
    endnote.paragraphs.itemByRange (1,-1).applyParagraphStyle (styles.ps, false);

    if (dimensions.numbered == true)
    {
    // Create cross-reference — three steps
    endnote_link = doc.paragraphDestinations.add (endnote.insertionPoints[0]);
    reference = doc.crossReferenceSources.add (footn[i].storyOffset, styles.cr_format);
    doc.hyperlinks.add (reference, endnote_link, {visible: false});
    }

    side_frame.fit (FitOptions.frameToContent);
    } // for var i

    // now delete the notes from the text
    delete_notemarkers (stories[j]);
    } // if stories[j]
    } // for var j
    win.message.parent.close ();
    if (dimensions.numbered == true)
    {
    //doc.paragraphStyles.item(‘n’).numberingFormat = get_format(n_styles.selection.index);
    //doc.paragraphStyles.item(‘n’).numberingStartAt = 1;
    doc.crossReferenceSources.everyItem().update();
    }
    }

    function find_stories (doc)
    {
    var array = [];
    // no selection: return all stories
    if (app.selection.length == 0)
    {
    return doc.stories.everyItem().getElements();
    }
    else
    {
    try {app.selection[0].parentStory; return [app.selection[0].parentStory]}
    catch (e) {alert (“Invalid selection”, “Convert footnotes”, true); exit ()}
    }
    }

    function add_frame (ins_point, style, width)
    {
    var sidebar = ins_point.textFrames.add ();
    if (parseInt (app.version) < 8)
    { // Maybe this isn’t needed in any version, but we’ll leave it.
    sidebar.geometricBounds = [0, 0, “20pt”, width];
    }
    sidebar.label = style.name;
    sidebar.appliedObjectStyle = style;
    return sidebar
    }

    function delete_notemarkers (there)
    {
    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
    app.findChangeGrepOptions.includeFootnotes = true;
    app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = ‘~F’;
    there.changeGrep ();
    }

    function check_styles (doc, s, sidenote)
    {
    var styles = text_styles (doc, s, sidenote);
    footnote_options (doc);
    if (doc.objectStyles.item (s) == null)
    {
    with (doc.objectStyles.add ({name: s}))
    {
    // Store the width of the frame so we can use that later when adding notes semi-manually
    // We’ll store the value in points (Don’t do this any longer, frames are set to fixed width
    //label = convert_units (sidenote.width, “pt”);
    basedOn = doc.objectStyles[0];
    enableParagraphStyle = true;
    appliedParagraphStyle = styles.ps_numbered;
    enableStroke = true;
    strokeWeight = 0;
    enableAnchoredObjectOptions = true;
    with (anchoredObjectSettings)
    {
    spineRelative = true;
    anchoredPosition = AnchorPosition.anchored;
    anchorPoint = AnchorPoint.topRightAnchor;
    //horizontalReferencePoint = AnchoredRelativeTo.columnEdge;
    horizontalReferencePoint = AnchoredRelativeTo.pageMargins;
    anchorXoffset = sidenote.gutter;
    horizontalAlignment = HorizontalAlignment.leftAlign;
    verticalReferencePoint = VerticallyRelativeTo.capheight;
    pinPosition = true;
    }
    enableTextFrameGeneralOptions = true;
    textFramePreferences.useFixedColumnWidth = true;
    textFramePreferences.textColumnFixedWidth = sidenote.width;
    } // with
    } // if (doc.objectStyles.item (s) == null)
    styles.o_style = doc.objectStyles.item (s);
    return styles;
    }

    function text_styles (doc, n, sidenote)
    {
    // unnumbered par. style for second and further paragraphs in a note
    var ps_next = doc.footnoteOptions.footnoteTextStyle;
    ps_next.justification = Justification.toBindingSide;
    // create a new par style, based on ps_next, for the numbered (first) paragraph in each note
    var numpar = ps_next.name.replace (/[\[\]]/g, “”) + “_numbered”;
    try {
    var ps_num = doc.paragraphStyles.add ({name: numpar, basedOn: ps_next});
    }
    catch (_) {var ps_num = doc.paragraphStyles.item (numpar)};

    if (sidenote.numbered == true)
    {
    try
    {
    var numlist = doc.numberingLists.add ({name: n});
    numlist.continueNumbersAcrossStories = true;
    numlist.continueNumbersAcrossDocuments = true;
    ps_num.numberingFormat = sidenote.number_format;
    ps_num.numberingStartAt = sidenote.start_number;
    } catch (_) {var numlist = doc.numberingLists.item (n)};

    // create char. style for references if no char style is set in the Footnote options window
    if (doc.footnoteOptions.footnoteMarkerStyle == doc.characterStyles[0])
    {
    try
    {
    var cue_style = doc.characterStyles.add ({name: n + “_reference”});
    cue_style.position = Position.superscript;
    } catch (_) {var cue_style = doc.characterStyles.item (n + “_reference”)};
    }
    else
    var cue_style = doc.footnoteOptions.footnoteMarkerStyle;

    // char style for the numbers in the notes
    try
    {
    var char_style = doc.characterStyles.add ({name: n + “_number”});
    } catch (_) {};

    try
    {
    var cr = doc.crossReferenceFormats.add ({name: n});
    cr.appliedCharacterStyle = cue_style;
    cr.buildingBlocks.add (BuildingBlockTypes.paragraphNumberBuildingBlock);
    } catch (_) {var cr = doc.crossReferenceFormats.item (n)};

    try
    {
    ps_num.appliedNumberingList = numlist;
    ps_num.bulletsAndNumberingListType = ListType.numberedList;
    ps_num.tabList = [{position: “12pt”, alignment: TabStopAlignment.leftAlign}];
    ps_num.numberingCharacterStyle = char_style;
    } catch (_) {};
    }
    return {ps_numbered: ps_num, ps: ps_next, cr_format: cr}
    }

    function footnote_options (doc) {doc.footnoteOptions.separatorText = “”;}

    // Interface =================================================================

    function sidenote_coordinates (doc)
    {
    var number_styles = [‘1, 2, 3, 4. . .’,
    ‘01,02,03…’,
    ‘I, II, III, IV…’,
    ‘i, ii, iii, iv…’,
    ‘A, B, C, D,…’,
    ‘a, b, c, d…’,
    ‘001,002,003…’,
    ‘0001,0002,0003…’,
    ];

    var w = new Window (‘dialog’, ‘Sidenotes’, undefined, {closeButton: false});
    var doc_unit = doc_units ();
    //~ w.alignChildren = [‘right’, ‘top’];
    w.alignChildren = ‘fill’;
    var main = w.add (‘panel’);
    main.alignChildren = [‘right’, ‘top’];
    main.orientation = ‘column’;
    var g1 = main.add (‘group’);
    g1.add (‘statictext’, undefined, ‘Width of the notes: ‘);
    var width = g1.add (‘edittext’);
    width.characters = 12;
    width.text = convert_units (“70 pt”, doc_unit);
    width.active = true;
    var g2 = main.add (‘group’);
    g2.add (‘statictext’, undefined, ‘Space between note and text: ‘);
    var space = g2.add (‘edittext’);
    space.text = convert_units (“12 pt”, doc_unit);
    space.characters = 12;

    var numbering_group = w.add (‘panel {orientation: “row”}’); // numbering_group.orientation= “stack”

    var numbered = numbering_group.add (‘checkbox {text: “\u00A0Numbering”, alignment: [“left”,”top”]}’);

    var panel = numbering_group.add (‘panel {alignChildren: “right”}’);

    var g1 = panel.add (‘group’);
    g1.add (‘statictext’, undefined, ‘Style:’);
    var n_styles = g1.add (‘dropdownlist’, undefined, number_styles);
    n_styles.preferredSize.width = 100;

    var g2 = panel.add (‘group’);
    g2.add (‘statictext’, undefined, ‘Start at:’);
    var start_value = g2.add (‘edittext’, undefined, ‘1’);
    start_value.preferredSize.width = 100;

    numbered.value = true;
    n_styles.selection = 0;

    numbered.onClick = function ()
    {
    panel.enabled = this.value;
    }

    start_value.onDeactivate = function ()
    {
    if (this.text.search (/^\d+$/) < 0)
    {
    alert (‘Enter an arabic number.’);
    start_value.active = true;
    }
    }

    var buttons = w.add (‘group’);
    buttons.orientation = ‘row’;
    buttons.alignChildren = [‘right’, ‘bottom’];
    buttons.add (‘button’, undefined, ‘OK’);
    buttons.add (‘button’, undefined, ‘Cancel’, {name: ‘cancel’});

    width.onChange = function () {width.text = convert_units (width.text, doc_unit)};
    space.onChange = function () {space.text = convert_units (space.text, doc_unit)};

    if (w.show () == 2) exit ();

    return {width: width.text,
    gutter: space.text,
    numbered: numbered.value,
    number_format: get_format(n_styles.selection.index),
    start_number: Number (start_value.text)
    }
    }

    function get_format (index)
    {
    return [
    NumberingStyle.ARABIC,
    NumberingStyle.SINGLE_LEADING_ZEROS,
    NumberingStyle.UPPER_ROMAN,
    NumberingStyle.LOWER_ROMAN,
    NumberingStyle.UPPER_LETTERS,
    NumberingStyle.LOWER_LETTERS,
    NumberingStyle.DOUBLE_LEADING_ZEROS,
    NumberingStyle.TRIPLE_LEADING_ZEROS][index];
    }

    function convert_units (n, to)
    {
    var m = [];
    m[“ag”] = 5.1428571428;
    m[“p”] = 12.0000000000;
    m[“mm”] = 2.8346456692;
    m[“cm”] = 28.3464566929;
    m[“in”] = 72.00000000;
    m[“c”] = 12.7878751998;
    m[“tr”] = 3.0112500000; // traditional point — but we don’t do anything with it yet
    m[“pt”] = 1.0000000000;
    obj = fix_measurement (n);
    var temp = (obj.amount * m[obj.unit]) / m[to];
    return output_format (temp, to)
    }

    // Add the target unit to the amount, either suffixed pt, ag, mm, cm, in,
    // or infixed p or c

    function output_format (amount, target)
    {
    amount = amount.toFixed (3).replace (/\.?0+$/g, “”);
    if (target.length == 2) // two-character unit: pt, mm, etc.
    return String (amount) + ” ” + target;
    else // “p” or “c”
    {
    // calculate the decimal
    var decimal = (Number (amount) – parseInt (amount)) * 12;
    // return the integer part of the result + infix + formatted decimal
    return parseInt (amount) + target + decimal;
    }
    }

    function fix_measurement (n)
    {
    // infixed “p” and “c” to decimal suffixes: 3p4 > 3.5 p
    n = n.replace (/(\d+)([pc])([.\d]+)$/, function () {return Number (arguments[1]) + Number (arguments[3]/12) + arguments[2]});
    // add unit if necessary
    n = n.replace (/(\d)$/, “$1” + doc_units (app.documents[0]))
    // split on unit
    var temp = n.split (/(ag|cm|mm|c|pt|p|in)$/);
    if (temp.length == 1)
    return {amount: Number (temp[0]), unit: doc_units ()};
    else
    return {amount: Number (temp[0]), unit: temp[1]};
    }

    function doc_units ()
    {
    switch (app.documents[0].viewPreferences.horizontalMeasurementUnits)
    {
    case 2051106676: return ‘ag’;
    case 2053336435: return ‘cm’;
    case 2053335395: return ‘c’;
    case 2053729891: return ‘in’;
    case 2053729892: return ‘in’;
    case 2053991795: return ‘mm’;
    case 2054187363: return ‘p’;
    case 2054188905: return ‘pt’;
    }
    }

    function errorM (m)
    {
    alert (m, “Error”, true)
    exit ()
    }

    function progress_bar (stop, title)
    {
    var w = new Window (‘palette’, title);
    w.pbar = w.add (‘progressbar’, undefined, 0, stop);
    w.pbar.preferredSize.width = 300;
    return w;
    }

    function create_message (le, title)
    {
    var w = new Window (“palette”, title);
    w.alignChildren = [“left”, “top”];
    w.message = w.add (“statictext”, undefined, “”);
    w.message.characters = le;
    return w;
    }

  • April 13, 2017 at 12:31 am #93685
    Anonymous

    Inactive

    Did you find a solution? I am looking for the exact same thing.

  • April 13, 2017 at 1:18 am #93687
    Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

    Participant

    …

    (^/)

  • April 13, 2017 at 5:18 am #93690
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Olav Martin Kvern created a “convert to side heading” script for when we wrote Real World InDesign. It takes a heading paragraph into an anchored frame and moves the frame to the correct position. However, I tried it now and it’s not working… do you want me to ask Ole if he can fix it?

    • June 8, 2021 at 6:29 am #14340005
      Agata Czapiewska

      Participant

      Hi, David, it would be really great if the script you have mentioned could be updated to work with InDesign 2021. I would certainly buy it.

    • June 8, 2021 at 4:34 pm #14340021
      David Blatner

      Keymaster

      @Agata: Do the other scripts here in this thread work for you?

    • June 10, 2021 at 12:08 pm #14340074
      Agata Czapiewska

      Participant

      The one that converts footnotes to sidenotes works, but that’s not what I’m looking for. I would like to make ome paragraph style jump to the margin into pre-defined anchored frames. Because I am no expert in writing scripts, I am looking for a ready-to-go script that I can download and start using without editing it. I hope it is possible.

    • June 10, 2021 at 3:16 pm #14340079
      Michel Allio for FRIdNGE

      Participant

      See above!

      (^/)

  • April 13, 2017 at 5:53 am #93693
    Kai Rübsamen

    Member

    I wrote something for our german forum years ago: The script assumes a object-style “SIDE HEADER” with textframe width, auto height and anchoring options.

    var curDoc = app.documents[0]; 
     
    // Zurücksetzen der Sucheinstellungen   
    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null; 
    // Setzen der Sucheinstellungen   
    app.findGrepPreferences.appliedParagraphStyle = curDoc.paragraphStyles.itemByName("SIDE HEADER"); 
     
    // Suchen und Ergebnisse in Variable speichern   
    var results = curDoc.findGrep(true);   
     
    // Den Text in einen neuen Rahmen verschieben   
    for (var n = 0; n < results.length; n++) {
        
      var curResult = results[n];
      var a = curResult.insertionPoints[-1];
      var newTf = a.textFrames.add();
      newTf.appliedObjectStyle = curDoc.objectStyles.itemByName("SIDE HEADER");
    
      var myTextToMove = curResult.characters.itemByRange(0,-1);
      myTextToMove.move(LocationOptions.AFTER, newTf.insertionPoints[0]);
     
      // Zurücksetzen der Sucheinstellungen   
      app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
      // Suchen nach
      app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "r+"; 
      // Ändern in
      app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = "";
      // Alle Ändern
      newTf.changeGrep();
    }  
     
    // Zurücksetzen der Sucheinstellungen   
    app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
    

    
    Kai

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