Kai – Thanks, that was what we needed. The client had been using auto-numbering in the TOC instead of pulling the numbers in from the heads in the chapters. Turning off the auto numbering in the TOC and using the full paragraphs allowed them to be included in the bookmarks.

Thanks for your help!

Hi – I bought Hyperlink Pro and am happy to report that it works great for this use. I had already inserted the discretionary line breaks into the URLs for typesetting, so I was relieved to see that even though it can add them as well, if I have already got them in place, the script can still create the hyperlinks properly. I do not have to remove them all first and then run the script.

NOW, I have a 2nd request. For this particular publisher, they have a digital pdf platform that requires each hyperlink to have a special tag inserted at the end. It’s a character string beginning with #.

I would love a script that can add a given text string to the end of all the hyperlinks – but not in the text; just in the hyperlink dialog (the link itself).

I know that I could probably accomplish this by using GREP to add this tag string to all my hyperlinks before running Hyperlink Pro, and then delete them from the text. In theory, these tags will be part of the hyperlinks that Hyperlink Pro creates. It’s a bit messy, but I plan to try that for today.

However, for future use, it would be great to have a script that can add these tags to just the hyperlink, while leaving the text alone. Anybody have such a script handy, or want to write one?

David,

Thanks for the reply. I have tried several times to reach him, to no avail. That’s why I posted on here, in case somebody knew what was up.

I’m happy to hear that he is apparently still in good health and still working in the business.

Meanwhile, I’m looking at the Hyperlink Pro script from ID-Extras. Looks like it will do what I need, at least for now.

Thanks for your hep!

Good things to try. I’ll have to test again – probably not for a few days (have to get the project done first)

Claudio – Thanks for the tip.

I saved to IDML and reopened the source file before copying, and yes, that did fix the problem. The boxes now come in bottom-aligned, in the correct position.

So, I guess we’ll have to watch out for this going forward.

It’s still troubling, but at least I know what to do when it happens.

Thanks!

Yes, if Peter can write scripts that do the opposite, I suppose he or someone else could whip up one that does this. I would certainly appreciate having it (i.e., I’d pay for it . . . ).

It’s just too bad it is necessary, though. There must be some saying such as “First, do no harm” that applies to software development – i.e. don’t make a new feature that takes away the ability to do what people are already doing with the product.

Steve,

Peter Kahrel’s script “dynamic endnotes.jsx” is great. It will do this.

it’s also good because if you have to remove or add notes, they can update the #s. That’s a lot of work manually! His script turns your endnotes into a Numbered List.

It’s a free script, but if you use it for a big project and are getting paid well, I suggest sending him a few bucks.

He also provides tech support if you have special requirements, as I did because we had both footnotes AND endnotes on the same pages.

Yes – I found a script by Peter Kahrel called Dynamic endnotes.jsx that converts the endnotes to cross references and makes them live.

The script requires that all endnotes have a unique character style (different from the footnotes and any punctuation, etc.). It also requires that the Endnote text have a paragraph style that is not used for something else, and that they are manually numbered to start with.

When you run the script, it asks you for the name of the character style to look for for the endnote refs, and the paragraph style for the endnote text. Then it changes all of the endnote text to a new paragraph style that is auto-numbered, and adds cross references to all of the references in the text.

Due to the complexity of my document, the script needed some updating. We used leading tabs before our endnote text, because we have single, double, and triple digit endnotes and all the numbers need to align, so Peter edited the script to find endnote text that begins with a tab and a number (^\d+ in GREP). After running the script, I apply a new, auto-numbered version of my endnote paragraph styles, which have unique indents for the 1, 2 or 3 digit numbers.

If the number of endnote refs and notes paragraphs don’t match, the script gives an error message and stops.

Another wrinkle was multi-paragraph endnotes; Peter added something to handle those, but depending on how you style those, you may need to do some workarounds to combine those paragraphs before running the script and then split them out again afterward. But that’s a very simple thing.

I’m not sure if he has posted the new script, which has a new name. I’ll invite Peter to jump in here and post a link to where that can be found.

BTW, Peter was SUPER helpful with all of this, even on a weekend. I was very happy to send him some $ for his time. If you use someone’s “free” scripts and they save you a lot of time and you make money using them, PLEASE do the right thing and pay some of the savings back to the developer.