Apply character styling to part of paragraph

Hi,

1st at all - you can not use "+=" operand since your insertionPoints[-1].contents is probably undefined initially. This will return an error "undefined is not an object". You can use "=" or "story.contents += "

2nd - you are able to apply charStyle to any text object

(not to a string which is a text's object contents ==> separate text property in fact)

So you can name/match somehow this part of text which should be a target.

But the easiest way is to apply desired charStyle to story.insertionPoints[-1] before adding contents.

This object properties will be parent to all new one created while adding.

So let assume you have a specific charStyle named mCharStyle

and mBasic = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item(0) // "None";

Your code could look like:

story.insertionPoints[-1].contents = pgfStr;
story.insertionPoints[-1].contents = "\t";
     story.insertionPoints[-1].applyCharacterStyle(mCharStyle);
story.insertionPoints[-1].contents = refStr;
     story.insertionPoints[-1].applyCharacterStyle(mBasic);     // back to "None"
story.insertionPoints[-1].contents = "\r";

Jarek

Hi,

Hmm...,

It looks like a part of code (some variables not defined)

Script creates a new para and charStyle but as "virtual" objects. If the goal is to apply them to ID document texts ==> use (i.e) :

messagePgfStyle = app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.add(messagePgfStyle);

But why to do it?

Your doc has styles "Poem" and "Verse" defined already, right?

If your goal is to apply one of them to the last paragraph of story ==> do it after if...else statement.

story.paragraphs[-1].applyParagraphStyle(app.activeDocument.paragraphStyles.item(pgfStyleName));

If your goal is to modify last para properties after that (style definition stay untouched) ==> do it assigning new values to last para of story (not to a style):

story.paragraphs[-1].leading = pgfPointSize + lineSpacing;

In case of modifying contents at the end ==> char style should be added to your doc (i.e.):

refCharStyle = app.activeDocument.characterStyles.add({
                    name: "refCharStyle",
                    pointSize: (pgfPointSize - 1.5) + "pt"
                    });

Jarek

Hi,

Dan-BTP wrote:

 

... the point size and leading can be different on every page...

Are you able to find any rule of these differences?

...

what to do depends on what kind of rule could be defined

...

The point size of the reference is 1.5 pt. smaller than the point size of the paragraph, whatever that is.

Near to the end of script you can code for example:

     //     Your target is "reference" which is a text inbetween tabulator and end of story (or other criteria). 
     //     So you could define:
app.findGrepPreferences = null;      // just for clear it
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "(?<=\\t).+\\s\\Z";     //     to catch text following tab in last para of story
     //     and after:
mFound = app.activeDocument.findGrep();
     //     so all desired text objects are in an array "mFound".
     //     you could iterate (backward) through it:
len = mFound.length;
while (len-->0)      //     ">0" in case of nothing found
     mFound[len].pointSize -= 1.5;

     //     whatever that is - is 1.5 smaller

Jarek