Empty space at the bottom of a page is almost always caused by your paragraph style Keep settings. Keep in mind that these do exactly what you ask!

“Keep all lines together”: no matter how long a paragraph is, if it’s too long for a page it will move to the next one. “Keep with next paragraph”: no matter what, this is super-glued to to next paragraph and it will never break between them at the bottom of a page. “Keep with previous”: the same, but for the preceding paragraph.

Deselect all of these options for all of your paragraph styles. For a basic text book, you only need a few!

1. Basic widow/orphan settings for plain text: at the start and end of a paragraph, keep 2 lines together.
2. Basic Heading settings: keep all lines together, and keep the entire heading with the next paragraph.

That’s really all. You still may have room for ‘several’ lines at the bottom of a page, but if you look at the next page it should be obvious why that is. (If it starts with a heading, for example. Typically, you wouldn’t want a heading at the bottom of a page.)

Didn’t try, but I think I see what’s happening. You indeed are moving the image – to be exact, the contents of each graphic frame. It’s as if you have selected the image with the open arrow, not its containing frame with the black arrow.

Try “if(imgs[i].parent.move){foundObjects.push(imgs[i].parent);}” instead.

(Whence the “imgs[i].parent.move”? This seems to checks if its parent has a ‘move’ method, and all of your images [parents] should. I believe you don’t need the “if” at all, unless you found some images that cannot be moved. Then just move each but wrap a try .. catch around this.)

I’d advise to steer clear of using GREP styles for what seems a genuine correction of an error. They are hard to correct in case there is an exception, and there is always a chance you have to repurpose your name list for something else, in which case you’d get the uncorrected names back. Even something as innocent as “copy text in InDesign, paste elsewhere” will most likely lose the capitals.

Since you’re looking at Find/Change anyway, you can do this:

Find “O’c”, replace with “O’C”, for all likely starting lettersand
Find “Mcm”, replace with “McM” — again for all starting letters.

If you only need to do this once, I’d not bother with MultiFind/Change. Do the above two replacements, then search for

O’

and

Mc

— the final characters here are both lowercase L. This way you’ll find the next uncapitalized name; use that in the next Find/Change. Repeat until nothing more is found.

And if you fancy a laff, read https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-names

— ah, that is Left Indent. For First Line use

app.findTextPreferences.firstLineIndent = app.selection[0].firstLineIndent;

Ow — I just noticed somehow the link to the full script has been cut off since posting! Here it is again:

https://www.jongware.com/binaries/CopySupInfSettings.zip

Just a week or so ago I wrote a two-line script to add parentheses around selected text: https://forums.adobe.com/thread/2613893 (*)

Here it is:

app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].contents = ')';
app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].contents = '(';

– don’t worry, as it is, it inserts round parentheses, but you can replace them with any text you want. For example (as I don’t know the codes for the Chinese marks), curly quotes would be

app.selection[0].insertionPoints[-1].contents = '\u201c';
app.selection[0].insertionPoints[0].contents = '\u201d';

(*) (Am I the only one thinking you really must be desperate for help to post as large as possible? :)

Ah, that took a bit of tinkering but I think I got it narrowed down. Here is the startup script – if there is a variable called year in a document that you open (it blindly assumes this has a reasonable value!), an existing variable year-now will be updated, and if it does not exist, it will be created first.

//DESCRIPTION:Write date difference in variable
// A Jongware Script 15-Jul-2019
#targetengine "set_experience_variable"
app.addEventListener("afterOpen", check_and_set_variable, false);
function check_and_set_variable (event)
{
var theDoc = event.parent;
if (theDoc instanceof Document)
{
var tvar = theDoc.textVariables.item('year');
if (tvar.isValid && tvar.variableType == VariableTypes.CUSTOM_TEXT_TYPE)
{
var uvar = theDoc.textVariables.item('year-now');
if (!uvar.isValid)
uvar = theDoc.textVariables.add({name:'year-now', variableType:VariableTypes.CUSTOM_TEXT_TYPE});
uvar.variableOptions.contents = String(new Date().getFullYear() - Number(tvar.variableOptions.contents))
}
}
}

… and a second script that you can place in your regular scripts folder. This does the same thing, but directly into your current document; that way you don’t have to close-and-reopen a document if you want to add the variables!

//DESCRIPTION:Write date difference in variable
// A Jongware Script 15-Jul-2019
var theDoc = app.activeDocument
var tvar = theDoc.textVariables.item('year');
if (tvar.isValid && tvar.variableType == VariableTypes.CUSTOM_TEXT_TYPE)
{
var uvar = theDoc.textVariables.item('year-now');
if (!uvar.isValid)
uvar = theDoc.textVariables.add({name:'year-now', variableType:VariableTypes.CUSTOM_TEXT_TYPE});
uvar.variableOptions.contents = String(new Date().getFullYear() - Number(tvar.variableOptions.contents))
}