Ward, you are correct. The find-order is sometimes or mostly (not everytime) the order of creation. There is no sort function for that in the UI. You are good to go, if you collect everything in an array and sort it.

Kai

Flush Space is the trick or go the other way: If you have only two words that should stick together > Nonbreaking Space (Fixed Width).

Delfim,

there are at least two possible ways:

1. Anchor you numbering at front of the figure-para and the position will change automatically (depending on your settings in the anchoring dialog)

2. Use 2 styles (one normal style with left numbering and a second “special” style with right numbering)

How to archive right numbering: Since some versions you can have some variations of placeholder text if you command click on Insert Placeholdertext. If you choose e.g. Hebrew, you can write with world ready composer applied from right to left and a Auto-num will be on the right.

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So it is up to you, if you apply those right styles by hand or apply only the first style and a script could check, if the first style is on a right handed page and apply the second style automatically.

Kai

Hi Billy, well someone could write a book about that topic. If you you a lynda.com subscription, you could view the first videos of Chad Celius training title of InCopy. He discusses the pros and cons.

Pros:
– can only change text, no geometry > cannot create or move textframes
– Both (the designer and the editor) can work at the same time in the same document
– Better handling of controlling overflow
– Better control for different texters with assignments

Kai

Hi Kim,

if you draw narrow textframes, the side handles are there as well, but: They are overlapped by the in- and outport for textthreading. So the trick is, to click (hold) and drag on the outport. If you click and don’t hold the mouse, you will get the place cursor or a new linked textframe. So this is a bit tricky ;-)

Notice also, that is a difference if you click, hold and drag immediatly or if you click, hold, wait a second and drag then …

Kai

Nathan, as you pointed out, there are several scripts available, that deal with single pages. I’m not aware of a script, that deal with threaded frames.

If you are interested in a developed version for you, you can contact me at forum@ruebiarts.de

Kai

Haha, thats true, cause in $0 everything is saved and insert again. Choose $1 instead of $0. Does it work?

Kai

Then you need to store the value of app.documents.length and do what ever you do inside a for-loop.

Kai