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Hello friends,
Obiously table footnotes are not the same objects as footnotes (in text flows). They are not found with the script as described in my post message/5430068#5430068. They are also flows (I assume this from the ยง symbol at their end).
How to access these table footnotes? I have found only properties for their format, for example TblFnNumStyle, TblFnCellPosition or TblFnSuffix).
There is no such constant as FTI_tblfnโฆ
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I welcome Your ideas.
Klaus
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Hi Klaus, There is no special table footnote object in FrameMaker. There are two ways to get to table footnotes:
1) Loop through all of the document's Fn objects.
var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
var fn = doc.FirstFnInDoc;
while (fn.ObjectValid()) {
// ... Do something here.
fn = fn.NextFnInDoc;
}
This is the simplest method, but the internal list may not be in document order.
2) Process the paragraphs in document order, and for each paragraph, get a list of footnote anchor objects. I don't have time to code this in ExtendScript, but here is how it looks with FrameScript:
Set oPgf = TextSelection.Begin.Object;
Get TextList InObject(oPgf) FnAnchor NewVar(tTextList);
Loop While(i <= tTextList.Count) LoopVar(i) Init(1) Incr(1)
Set oFn = tTextList.TextData;
// Do something with the footnote here.
EndLoop
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Rick,
The first method would be my favour (it is elegant), but it continues after the last table-footnote with the first normal footnote - thus creating a 'loop'.
I have not yet found a method to stop that loop. My first attempt fails:
function ProcessFootnote (doc) { // find citations in footnotes var fnText = ""; var fn = doc.FirstFnInDoc; while (fn.ObjectValid()) { fnText = (GetText(fn)); alert (fnText); // the text of the footnote
var citations = GetTempCitations (fnText); fn = fn.NextFnInDoc; if (fn == doc.FirstFnInDoc) { return; // ------- Does not stop the loop, === doesn't it either } } } //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
PS will be absent for some days from this project.
Klaus
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This has been solved by Rick's answer to my post "Getting text from footnote".