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• • July 12, 2015 at 2:51 pm #76526
    Chris Court

    Member

    Easy one for you scripting geniuses,

    I’m working on a custom list for the above script to fix some of the common text issues we encounter in copy coming from our writers and wire stories. Everything was working peachy until I came to the following puzzler:

    I want to change the paragraph style of a certain set of text patterns. Everything works fine if the required style is sitting in the root of the style palette, however I can’t work out how to point the script at the style if it is located in a style group.

    The offending line is of the form:
    //grep {findWhat:”(Smith|Jones|Thompson)”} {appliedParagraphStyle:”TX Byline”} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false} Ensures correct style for bylines.

    The paragraph style is called “TX Byline”, and it is located in a style group named “Body Text Styles”

    I’ve tried
    {appliedParagraphStyle:”TX Byline (Body Text Styles)”}
    {appliedParagraphStyle:”TX Byline(Body Text Styles)”}
    {appliedParagraphStyle:”Body Text Styles/TX Byline”}
    {appliedParagraphStyle:”Body Text Styles\TX Byline”}
    {appliedParagraphStyle:”Body Text Styles:TX Byline”}

    …all of which give me javascript errors.

    I’m sure it’s a simple fix, but I’m afraid I’m just not familiar enough with the syntax to guess at it. Any help would be appreciated.

    Thanks!
    Chris

  • July 13, 2015 at 12:16 pm #76550
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Let me know if this helps: https://creativepro.com/topic/targeting-nested-para-styles-in-findchangebylist-script

  • July 14, 2015 at 7:52 am #76572
    Chris Court

    Member

    Thanks so much, David!

    The syntax on the page you linked to worked a charm… although I did have to change a couple of smart quotes to dumb quotes before the script recognised it.

    Chris

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