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Matthew Mariani
MemberrZ does appear to work in InDesign CC.
MemberI thought that should work, but I tried rZ using InDesign CS6 on Mac and could not get it to work.
March 3, 2014 at 8:31 am in reply to: Changing a text character to a symbol or solid box help #67423MemberI was not thinking in terms of using a grep style, but I suppose you could, but you still have to change the 1 and 0 characters to something else. You could do 2 find change grep operations through the find change dialog, using the grep panel.
findWhat: \A1\Z changeTo: \x{F0A2} — unicode for solid black square character in Wingdings2
findWhat: \A0\Z changeTo: \x{F0A3} — unicode for open square character in Wingdings2
For changeTo formatting for both, also indicate Wingdings2 font or character style that specifies it, or use grep style. I’m working on a Mac, so I not certain you would be using the same values if you are on a PC.
March 3, 2014 at 6:45 am in reply to: Changing a text character to a symbol or solid box help #67420MemberWhat do you mean by making the textbox “into a solid”? Are you trying to simulate checked and unchecked check boxes? I don’t think you can alter the fill color of the box using grep alone, but you could probably simulate the same visual appearance using two different symbol characters using a grep find and replace. Assuming the targeted textframes each contain only a single character, either 1 or 0:
\A1\Z would match a solitary 1 in a textframe
\Z0\Z would match a solitary 0 in a textframe
Replace the 1 and 0 with appropriate symbol characters. Would that work for your situation?
MemberIn a script, try using positive lookahead “r(?=Z)” for findWhat property. Note, this will also delete the last return at the end of any table cell as well. Works in InDesign CS6.
March 2, 2014 at 8:39 am in reply to: Create a list of anything that uses a certain paragraph/character style #67403MemberI’ve updated the script to expose the grep expression used to match the format of the chapter/section identifiers in the user interface of the script, so it can be customized. The default setting matches what you describe, I think. New version available at https://press.matthewmariani.us. My contact info can be found at https://www.matthewmariani.us
Hope that helps.
February 27, 2014 at 7:00 pm in reply to: Create a list of anything that uses a certain paragraph/character style #67376MemberAlexandro,
If I’ve understood your requirements correctly, I may have written a script that meets your need. This script has been very MINIMALLY tested. The requirements for the script to work are:
1. A specific paragraph style is assigned to each section heading
2. The chapter/section identifier is normal text and comprises the first characters of each section heading.
3. The chapter number is separated from the section number by a colon character.
4. A specific character style is assigned to each case name
5. No section heading appears inside of a table (It’s OK for case names to reside inside of tables)I’m posting the script to my site https://press.matthewmariani.us along with an idml file you can use to do some initial testing.
February 18, 2014 at 5:03 am in reply to: Create a list of anything that uses a certain paragraph/character style #67225MemberSo each section begins with a chapter/section designator, for example, 1.07 and this text has an applied character style of RUNNING HEADER? I mistakenly thought that the RUNNING HEADER style was applied to text in a running header. That would provide a hook to identify which section each case belongs to. Then the script would have to aggregate the chapter/section designators for multiple occurrences of the same case, right? I think that could be done if each citation of a given case is identical to every other citation of the same case.
February 17, 2014 at 3:09 pm in reply to: Create a list of anything that uses a certain paragraph/character style #67220MemberThis can be done, but the script would need a way of determining which chapter/section each bit of text formatted with the CASE TABLE style appears in. Is the chapter/section indicated in the running header of every single document page? How is the chapter/section numbering implemented? Does the chapter/section number appear in a running header on a master spread? If so, is the master spread text frame containing the running header ever overridden to a publication page? The script would have to work based on the way the document is set up.
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