Alignment in InDesign using Scripts

[revathiv80720177]

Hi,

I have a xml in which I have data as

<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>DESCRIPTION</strong></p>

In this,

<strong>DESCRIPTION</strong>. Here I have applied Character style using Script and displayed it as  DESCRIPTION.Then, I have this tag , <p style="text-align: left;">  for left alignment.I have to apply left alignment by removing the tag.Is it possible to apply left alignment from the tag, in InDesign using script?Please guide me.

Regards,

Revathi

[lfcorullon]

You can apply paragraph style (which contains the alignment you want) via

script.

Try to find () separating them in

groups using the (). And then change to $2 (which is your second group /

your content) and apply the correct para style you want. Use grep

find/change script methods.

[Loic.Aigon]

All you need is use map tags to styles in the tags panel…

[revathiv80720177]

Hi Corullon and Loic,

Thanks for your response.I have got it.But now I have a tag for alignment as  <p style="text-align: left;"> .I am able to only map tags with <p> and so but I am unable to apply my styles for tags,  <p style="text-align: left;">  for alignment.What do I have to do now?

Thanks,

Revathi

[lfcorullon]

I would do using a script, as I mentioned.

But comparing my first found group with a string. If the string is the same

as found, apply the paragraph aligning to the left. Else, applying another

one or doing nothing.

Am I clear?

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[revathiv80720177]

Hi Corullon and Loic,

I have to apply paragraph styles to tags in  xml while importing  xml. Now I can apply styles only for tags <B> and so.But for alignment I have tags as   <P style="text-align: left;"> or <P align =center> ,in xml.I am mapping tags to styles as  <B stylename="Bold Style" />.But how shall I map my alignment tag to style, <P style="text-align: left;"> or <P align =center>.I tried to map it as <P align  center stylename ="left align">.But it was invalid mapping.How shall I map my alignment tag to styles.

Regards,

Revathi V

[Loic.Aigon]

A solution would have been to use XSLT and namespaced attributes such aid:pstyle and aid:cstyle so a node can call a specific text style on import.

Once that said, I gave this a try yesterday but although my xsl worked fine on Oxygen plus my transformed XML nicely injected in InDesign. It just failed when the transformation occured inside indesign.

Obviously the style="text-align: left;" syntax isn't properly understood by the inner xslt engine 😕

[revathiv80720177]

Hi Loic,

Thank you for your response.Is there any possibility to apply this tag  for alignment or I have to  change the tag in xml.Guide me.

Regards,

Revathi V

[Loic.Aigon]

I thought i just did. if you need styles applied on import, and given that you can't Map a same node with différent styles, then the solution is change the xml structure so either tag names are changed or use the namespaced aid:pstyle attribute.