Baseline Equation Script for .wmf

[ahmetö66264486]

var fp = app.selection[0].graphics[0].itemLink.filePath;
var f = File(fp);
f.open('w');
var fs = f.read();
f.close();
var baseline = fs.match(/%%Baseline:\s+(\S+)/)[1];

Baseline equation script not working. (File type .wmf)

[Laubender]

Hi Ahmet,

what would you expect as result?
What is the actual result?

Does the wmf file contain %%Baseline at all?

Regards,
Uwe

[ahmetö66264486]

NO, It doesn't contain. Is there any other way to do this?

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi!

December 24 is not the best day to play Maths! 

(^/)

[ahmetö66264486]

Well, thank you. But could you just give me an idea?

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

If you want to play Maths into InDesign, make some serious researches on MathType, MT-Script and MathMagic, on Windows and Mac OSX!

When done, if time, maybe I'll help you!

(^/)

[ahmetö66264486]

Okay. Thanks. I will researches. 🙂

[ahmetö66264486]

Obi- Wan "January 21 Is it a good day to deal with mathematical expressions?" :)) Please help me.

[Peter Kahrel]

You can't align WMF files to the baseline because they don't contain any baseline value. You should ask your customer/supplies to save the equations as MathType files, which are EPS files and contain (among others) the equation's baseline value. The EPS equation can be opened and read like any file to obtain the baseline value.

Peter

[Obi-wan Kenobi]

Hi,

Play Maths with MathType could be very hard!

It's a long time I've not treated eq.

As I've already written, I only use MathType into a personal complex conversion process [Word/TeX/FrameMaker source files --> MathType + Word files --> TeX eq. + Word files --> import in InDesign] and re-build the eq. to MathMagic eq.

Why? … because, in ID:

• I use Grep to correct authors' equations work!

• MathMagic magically plays with eq. baseline [automatic]!

• MathMagic magically plays with eq. formatting (font, char size, color, …) depending of the para where eq. are [Javascript]!

(^/)

[ahmetö66264486]

Thank you. But How can mathmagic do it?

[ahmetö66264486]

How can mt-script do it?

[Peter Kahrel]

Beware of the mt-prefix: it's usually associated with MathTools, not MathType. If you have your equations in MathType EPS format, a script can read the baseline value and position the equation. There are various scripts around to do that -- google around and you're bound to find some.