Lookarounds find positions, not text. Therefore it is possible to find something, but not to include it.

Assume you are the ‘space’ ;-) and you are sitting on a time ray. If you want to find something left from you (in the past), you will have a look to your left (lookbehind). If you want to find something in the future, you will have a look to your right (lookahead).

The code that you provide, is the shortcut for a lookbehind. So it will find a space, if it is preceded by a number.

But what you need is a lookahead:

\x20(?=\d)

Kai

Aris Skript assumes, that you apply ‘Day entries’ and ‘Date headings’ by hand. I’ve no idea, why he collect first insertionPoints and did it this way …

What I did manually:
1. This is clear.

2. Find the beginning of a paragraph, followed by a number, that consists of 2 digits, followed by a uppercase letter. This will find 22 Monday’, but also ’99Chicken wings’. Since I didn’t find those chicken wings-problems in your document, I decide to do it the easy way. Otherwise the search must be more specific.

3. (?s) choose the so called ‘Single line mode’ and affected the scope of the wildcard ‘.’ So in this special case, it finds a character with applied style ‘Day entries’, if the next character has not this style applied. So it finds the last line and give us the chance to apply another style.

To your last question:
Sure, this could be done by F/C or could be part of a grepstyle: (?i)week\x20\d+$
Will find caseless week(WEEK), followed by an space, followed by any number at the end of a paragraph.

best
Kai

Aha! :) If you are able to read scripts, it is sometimes very easy to make minor changes, e.g. put your text after the para style name …

Hi Cindy,

yes this is possible:

var allParaStyles = app.activeDocument.allParagraphStyles;

var before = "2016_";

for (var i = 2; i < allParaStyles.length; i++) {
  var curStyle = allParaStyles[i];
  var curName = curStyle.name;
  if (curName.indexOf(before) == -1) {
    var newName = before + curName;
    curStyle.name = newName;
  }
}

Kai

Try this one and try to avoid all those try/catch things :)

var sel = app.selection[0];

// check your selection
if (sel != undefined) {
  var textHeaderTf = sel;
}

// the parent story
var parStory = textHeaderTf.parentStory;
// insert text at the end (realize, that there is no space before the new word)
parStory.insertionPoints[-1].contents = 'myNewText';

// a fill and a stroke color
var props = {
  fillColor: app.activeDocument.swatches[4],
  strokeColor: app.activeDocument.swatches[5]
}

// give the first word in the story a fill and a stroke color
var firstWord = parStory.words[0];

// since you insert something above, therre is always a word
firstWord.properties = props;

// give the frame a fill and a stroke color
textHeaderTf.properties = props;

Ari, your script doesn’t work with his testfile, even if I remove the textflow on the page, I get several errors?

“Doesn’t work” isn’t a detailed description of a problem ;-)

First, there a more examples needed, that one line
Second, did you read the comments in Davids post?

It is surely not a problem to bring 3-13 to the front. The sorting order would then be 3 and so on.

best
Kai

Hi,

why not use different masterpages for right and left?

Otherwise it is not possible to distinguish between even and odd pages, but a script can do this.

Kai