Problem adding an anchored text frame into a duplicated paragraph

Report · Jan 26, 2017

Hi,

I don't understand in which paragraph my new text frame is added,

Here is my code:

function buildFrameBox(para)

{

var copyPara = para.duplicate(LocationOptions.AFTER, para),

frame;

$.writeln(para.textFrames.length + ':' + copyPara.textFrames.length); // 0:0

app.findGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;

app.changeGrepPreferences = NothingEnum.NOTHING;

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "[^\r]"; // Remove anchor character

app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = '';

copyPara.changeGrep(); // Remove all content in my new paragraph except line break

frame = copyPara.insertionPoints.firstItem().textFrames.add();

frame.textFramePreferences.autoSizingType = AutoSizingTypeEnum.HEIGHT_AND_WIDTH_PROPORTIONALLY;

frame.contents = 'Some text here';

$.writeln(para.textFrames.length + ':' + copyPara.textFrames.length); // 1:0

return frame;

}

The question is: If I am adding a text frame into the duplicated paragraph, why does it say that original paragraph contains a text frame while the duplicated has no frames at all?

In my InDesign document script works fine and text frame is placed where I want.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Report · Jan 27, 2017

> In my InDesign document script works fine and text frame is placed where I want.

If your script works fine, what's the problem?

Anyway, this line:

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "[^\r]";

matches anything that's not a \r. Maybe that's the problem.

Report · Jan 27, 2017

Hi,

Thanks for your reply.

What I am trying to do is to create a textFrame where some paragraphs should be moved into.Also, I need to be careful when moving paragraphs that already contain textFrames.

After the code quoted above, I want to move my original paragraph into that textFrame.

So, the textFrame is created as expected.

The problem is that the original paragraph contained 0 textFrames and after that code is run it contains 1 textFrame.

But I expected original paragraph to contain 0 textFrames and the copy paragraph to contain 1.

So I am wondering if there is any problem with InDesign DOM.

The grep code is what I want so in my doc I got:

...

Original Paragraph \r

Text Frame \r

...

Thanks a lot for having a look into it.

Report · Jan 27, 2017

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "[^\r]";
matches anything that's not a \r. Maybe that's the problem.

Well technically it would match anything that's not the "r" character

Report · Jan 27, 2017

Yes,
Sorry, that line was wrong
.

It should be:

app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "[^\\r]"; // Remove everything except \r

However the problem/question about the number of textFrames in original paragraph remains.

Thanks a lot for your reply.

Report · Jan 27, 2017

Hello!

My name is Dumitru.

I work on design on books, and thus trying for a while to compose a GREP for subtitles to ease mai work load, but no success.

I have the Paragraph Styles and I can do the Character Styles for these subtitles with no dot “.“ at the end of them, of course.

I believe all my best was: ^[$\u+\l+\d]\.$+r but it did not work. At least I figured I need one GREP for each subtitle, because my subtitles are all different!

Examples of what subtitles I need is this:

Body text.... body text...body text...

subtitle: I. subtitle