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1. Mary Posner,

Apr 6, 2012 3:42 PM in reply to Matthew.Fry

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I'm not a javascripter, but I can answer most of your questions....

1. There isn't an example in the sample text file, but someone posted the answer in a thread that came up as related to this one. This is how you'd do it for a para style called "Blue" in a style group called "Colors":

appliedParagraphStyle:app.activeDocument.paragraphStyleGroups.item("Co lors").paragraphStyles.item("Blue")

2A/B. You're close, but whenever you have something in GREP that starts with a backslash that's running through javascript, you have to escape it by adding another backslash. Also, because of what you want to do in 2B, you'll want to write your search expression with subexpressions so you can delete the comma:

{findWhat:"(\\u+ \\u+)(,)"}
{changeTo:"By $1"}

To explain what's going on here in the changeTo, you're inserting "By" and a space, followed by the contents of the first set of parentheses ($1 = your reporters' names), and by omitting $2 (the contents of the second set of parens), you'll delete the comma.

Offhand I can't think how you'd do #3 using FindChangeList. It could undoubtedly by done via scripting, provided the story is all in one text flow.

I'll leave it to the folks who do know javascript to recommend a book!

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2. [Jongware],

Apr 6, 2012 4:24 PM in reply to Mary Posner

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Mary Posner wrote:

I'll leave it to the folks who do know javascript to recommend a book!

4. Peter Kahrel's "Scripting InDesign with Javascript" specifically targets the ID + JS combination: http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596802530.do

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3. Kasyan Servetsky,

Apr 7, 2012 10:48 PM in reply to Matthew.Fry

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Question 4

Check out also Automating Adobe InDesign CS4 with ExtendScript by Shirley W. Hopkins

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4. Matthew.Fry,

Apr 8, 2012 6:21 PM in reply to Matthew.Fry

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Mary Posner - Thanks for the assistance. Your solutions worked out great.

I have a follow up on question #2 - What would be the easiest way to modify the grep search to look for two or more upper case words followed by a comma?

Jongware and Kasyan Seretsky - Thanks for the recommendations. I'll check them out.

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5. [Jongware],

Apr 9, 2012 3:18 AM in reply to Matthew.Fry

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{findWhat:"(\\u+( \\u+)+),"}

{changeTo:"By $1"}

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6. Kasyan Servetsky,

Apr 9, 2012 9:11 AM in reply to Matthew.Fry

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3. I am also looking for a way to find a reporter's name (which is at the beginning of the article) and then add that reporter's contact information at the end of the article

I wrote a somewhat similar script which you can use as a starting point.

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7. Matthew.Fry,

Apr 10, 2012 2:28 PM in reply to Matthew.Fry

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[Jongware] - Thanks for the assistance. That worked great.

Kasyan Servetsky - I'll check out the script. Thanks for the help.

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8. Matthew.Fry,

May 9, 2012 10:13 AM in reply to Matthew.Fry

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I am not having much luck cracking #3 (I am also looking for a way to find a reporter's name (which is at the beginning of the article) and then add that reporter's contact information at the end of the article). Any suggestions?

• • • • •

EXAMPLE:

By PETER PARKER

DAILY BUGLE

Text text text text text text text text text text text.

• • • • •

The script would find "PETER PARKER"

And then would jump to the end of the article and insert "Peter Parker is a reporter with the Daily Bugle and can be reached at 555-5555."

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

I am looking to build a script that will look for a reporter's name (which is at the beginning of the article) and then will move to the end of the article add that reporter's contact information at the end of the article. I am not sure this can be done with FindChangeByList.

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9. rick_schwein,

May 11, 2012 10:44 AM in reply to Matthew.Fry

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You can put something at the end of a story with something like this:

grep

{findWhat:"^((.+\\r)+)"}

{changeTo:"$1\\rthis is at the end\\r"}

{}

So you should be able to have a series of searches for the various writers:

grep

{findWhat:"(By Peter Parker\\r)((.+\\r)+)"}

{changeTo:"$1$2Peter Parker is a reporter blah blah\\r"}

{}

And then style it with

grep

{findWhat:"(is a reporter blah blah)"}

{appliedParagraphStyle:"shirttail",changeTo:"$1"}

{}

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10. Matthew.Fry,

May 11, 2012 12:28 PM in reply to rick_schwein

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rick_schwein - Thanks! This is exactly would I was looking for.

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11. Matthew.Fry,

May 23, 2012 8:21 AM in reply to rick_schwein

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Some of the reporters don't put an extra return at the end of their articles.

What would be the expression for locating the last end of paragraph in an article?

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12. [Jongware],

May 23, 2012 10:47 AM in reply to Matthew.Fry

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\Z matches "end-of-story.

Missing from Adobe's list at http://help.adobe.com/en_US/indesign/cs/using/WSFB3603CC-8D84-48d8-9F7 7-F3E0644CB0B6a.html#WSa285fff53dea4f8617383751001ea8cb3f-6f59a ...

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13. Matthew.Fry,

Jun 5, 2012 1:57 PM in reply to [Jongware]

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Here is what I put together. Thanks for the assistance.

//Reporters taglines.txt

//

// FIND ALL DOUBLE RETURNS AND REPLACE WITH SINGLE RETURN

// If you don't do this first, the tagline will be placed at the first empty return

//

grep {findWhat:"\r\r+"} {changeTo:"\r"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false}

//

// --------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------

//

// FIND BOTTOM OF ARTICLE AND ADD EXTRA RETURN

// Not all reporters will put a return at the next of their articles

//

grep {findWhat:"((.+\\Z)+)"} {changeTo:"$1\\r"} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false}

//

// REPORTER'S TAGLINE

grep {findWhat:"(PARKER\\r)((.+\\r)+)"} {changeTo:"$1$2\\rPeter Parker is a reporter for The Daily Bugle. He can be reached at 555-555-5555 or by email at peter.parker@thedailybugle.com."} {includeFootnotes:true, includeMasterPages:true, includeHiddenLayers:true, wholeWord:false}

//

//APPLYING "BODY-RAG-ITALICS" TO TAGLINE

text {findWhat:"for The Villages Daily Sun. He can be reached at"} {appliedParagraphStyle:"Body-Rag-Italics"} {includeFootnotes:true, wholeWord:false, caseSensitive:false}

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