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• • December 10, 2019 at 8:38 am #1201882
    Year 1917

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    Hi

    Does someone have a script that a paragraph with 3 lines or less, the lines should be indented till after the first word and the space of the first line.
    Thanks

  • December 15, 2019 at 8:57 am #14323448
    Brian Pifer

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    This is a pretty niche thing, so don’t think a script exists for it. You could create a paragraph style that does what you want, then cycle through the paragraphs, see if they have 3 or fewer lines, and apply the paragraph style to those lines?

  • December 15, 2019 at 3:53 pm #14323445
    Theunis De Jong

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    It *is* a niche thing, but it’s a small enough request to write a custom script for. This one requires you to click inside the story to process – it does not Play Nice with stuff like locked layers and master pages and such.
    It just inserts the Indent To Here marker at the start of the second word in a story. It also processes one-line paragraphs, which is kinda superfluous, but there you go, it was in the specs.

    //DESCRIPTION:Indent 3-line paragraphs after first word
    // A Jongware Script 15-Dec-2019
    // 1. Iterate over all paragraphs.
    allParagraphs = app.selection[0].parentStory.paragraphs;
    // 2. Filter out 3-lines-or-less.
    for (i=0; i<allParagraphs.length; i++)
    {
    // 3. Indent them after the first word.
    if (allParagraphs[i].words.length > 1 && allParagraphs[i].lines.length <= 3)
    {
    allParagraphs[i].words[1].insertionPoints[0].contents = '\u0007';
    }
    }

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