Hi,
I tried to use the below script written by Jump_Over (Big thanks to him for easing up this time consuming task) to convert text to footnote.
var
myDoc = app.activeDocument,
mStory = app.selection[0].texts[0].parentStory,
mEndNotes = myDoc.textFrames.add( {name:"EndNotes"} ),
k, len, cIP, currPara, currFoot, mMarkers;
app.findGrepPreferences = app.changeGrepPreferences = null;
//---------------------------------------------
// edit doc.footnoteOption here
with (myDoc.footnoteOptions)
{
showPrefixSuffix = FootnotePrefixSuffix.PREFIX_SUFFIX_BOTH;
prefix = "[";
suffix = "]";
separatorText = "\t";
markerPositioning = FootnoteMarkerPositioning.NORMAL_MARKER;
}
//------------------------------------------------------------
// move endnotes to a separate textFrame
for (k=mStory.paragraphs.length - 1; k >=0; k--)
{
if (mStory.paragraphs.contents.search(/^\[\d+\]/) == 0)
{
currPara = mStory.paragraphs.move(LocationOptions.AT_BEGINNING, mEndNotes.parentStory);
currPara.words[0].remove();
}
}
//--------------------------------------
// create footnote markers
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = "\\[\\d+\\]";
mMarkers = mStory.findGrep();
len = mMarkers.length;
while (len-->0) {
cIP = mMarkers[len].insertionPoints[0].index;
mMarkers[len].remove();
mStory.footnotes.add( LocationOptions.AFTER, mStory.insertionPoints[cIP] );
}
//-------------------------------------------------------
// fill footnote contents with proper text
for (k=0; k < mStory.footnotes.length; k++) {
currFoot = mStory.footnotes;
mEndNotes.paragraphs[0].texts[0].move(LocationOptions.AT_END, currFoot.texts[0]);
if (mStory.footnotes.characters[-1].contents == "\r") mStory.footnotes.characters[-1].remove();
}
mEndNotes.remove();
Before applying the script:
1. All the notes had a different paragraph style say, "Body Text" having a particular style.
2. In order to apply my own style, I dropped down "Footnote Para Style" for Paragraph Style under Footnote Formatting and "Footnote Ref Style" for Character Style under Footnote Reference in Document Footnote Options.
After doing this, I ran the above script.
The script placed all the footnotes perfectly but the Document Footnotes Options did not force the user defined Para and Char Style and went ahead with the earlier Para Style of notes ("Body Text"). I had to manually override all the footnotes to apply user defined paragraph style; which becomes a tedious task if there are 400 or more footnotes in the story.
Is there a way to tweak the script in such a way that it applies Document Footnote Options defined Para and Char styles without over-riding local styles. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Regards,
Aman Mittal
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