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January 24, 2023
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Adobe ExtendScript to find Acronyms

  • January 24, 2023
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Can anyone help me make a script to find Acronyms on framaker ? Please and thank you !

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    Participant
    January 26, 2023

    Any help would be appreciated ! 

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 26, 2023

    I'm not a scripter (and haven't messed with regex in over a decade), but anyone who can help is apt to want to know what characterizes the content you need to find:
    ? short strings of all-caps set off by whitespace
    ? short strings inside some punctuation
    ? and now for something, completely different

    Fightergator
    Inspiring
    January 27, 2023

    I might be able to help as well. I'm guessing you've decided the scope of the project is beyond using the Find / Replace panel. First, I'll echo Bob's questions. Also, need to be clear on whether you are looking for acronyms or abbreviations or both.  If acronyms, then we need an idea of how simple or complex they are; e.g., simple ABC, or more complex like A4BC, A-Bcd, A/B, or kHz.  If they've been defined, how were they defined?  Finally, are you going to have a table of the replacement text that you would replace each acronym with?  As an aside, finding simple acronyms is relatively easy...the tough part is what you want to do once they're found.

    Bob_Niland
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    January 25, 2023

    Any abbrevations, or just those that arguably can be pronounced?

    And what do you need to do with them when found?

    Or, based on your similar question in another thread, are you needing to find thing set-off by some punctuation (ABC)?

    Participant
    January 25, 2023

    I think any abbrevations would be easy to start with and once they are found i want to replace them with the full word .