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Finding location of selection in InCopy [AppleScript]

Sep 2, 2011 11:17 AM

This is a variation of my request from yesterday. I am able to select the last character of the last column of the story. I now want to know the location of that character.

 

For example, I find the last character with this lin of code

 

select text of last character of last word of last text column of myStory

I then put the seleciton in a variable

set mySelection to selection of myDocument

mySelection is a list. The first object has the following definition:
text from character 1108 to character 1108 of story id 37515 of document id 7
But I cannot figure how to get the the character number (1108) into a variable.
Any ideas?

582 Views   1 Reply   Latest reply: Paul Chernoff, Sep 13, 2011 12:47 PM
 
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    Sep 13, 2011 12:47 PM   in reply to Paul Chernoff
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    I have some of my answer. I set a variable to the index of the given character. See below.

     

    tell application "Adobe InCopy CS5"

    set myDocument to active document

    set mySelection to selection of myDocument

    set myTextObject to item 1 of mySelection

    set myStory to parent story of myTextObject

    set myOverset to overset text of myStory

    set myText to index of last character of myTextObject

    set howMany to count characters of myStory

    select character 20 of myStory

    end tell

     

    Now to figure out how to select a selection of text.

     

    This works:

    select character 20 of myStory

    This doesn't:
    select characters 20 through 30 of myStory

     
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