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K.Daube
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K.DaubeCommunity Expert
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November 8, 2021
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Applied character format does not stop before ¶ mark

  • November 8, 2021
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In trying to resolve the problems in What's wrong with this find-raplace script? I have discovered (FM-15, but also FM-16), that it is not possible to assign a character format to a string ending before the ¶ mark. This mark always also gets the character format:

  • Have a word at the end of the paragraph: window¶
  • Select the word and apply the character format. What you want to see is window
  • But the paragraph mark also gets the character format: window¶

Hence searching for the character format brings up a very strange text range:

When inspecting this text range, I see

 

 

oTR = [object TextRange]
  beg = [object TextLoc]
    obj = [object Pgf] → ID 520257540
    offset = 7
  end = [object TextLoc]
    obj = [object Pgf] → ID 520257542
    offset = 0

 

I  have not found a method to find the real end of the thingy i want (it's not the current selection, it is the string with the searched character format). The following does not work:

 

#target framemaker
main ();

function main () {
  var oDoc = app.ActiveDoc, oPgf, oTLe, oTR, oTR2;
  
  oTR = oDoc.TextSelection;
  oPgf = oTR.beg.obj;
  oTR2 = new TextRange();
  oTR2.beg.obj = oTR.end.obj = oPgf;
  oTR2.beg.offset = oTR.beg.offset;
  oTR2.end.offset = Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET- 1;
  app.ActiveDoc.TextSelection = oTR2;
}

 

 

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Correct answer frameexpert

The huge number doesn't prevent this from working:

var doc, pgf, textLoc;

doc = app.ActiveDoc;
pgf = doc.TextSelection.beg.obj;
textLoc = new TextLoc (pgf, Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET - 1);
doc.AddText (textLoc, "- At the end of the paragraph");

The length of the paragraph's text is not going to be reliable because you could have anchors in the paragraph (markers, tables, anchored frames) that will affect the offset value.

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frameexpert
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frameexpertCommunity Expert
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November 8, 2021

Klaus, please try this:

 

#target framemaker

main ();

function main () {
    
  var oDoc = app.ActiveDoc, oPgf, oTLe, oTR, oTR2;
  
  oTR = oDoc.TextSelection;
  oPgf = oTR.beg.obj;
  oTR2 = new TextRange (
    new TextLoc (oPgf, oTR.beg.offset),
    new TextLoc (oPgf, Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET - 1));
  app.ActiveDoc.TextSelection = oTR2;
}
    K.Daube
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    K.DaubeCommunity ExpertAuthor
    Community Expert
    November 10, 2021

    Unfortunately the properties of the text selection are still not correct:

    oTR2.end.offset is this huge number and can not be used to insert something at the end of the paragraph.

    I need to do it this way.

    var oDoc = app.ActiveDoc, oPgf, oTR, oTR2, sText;
  oTR = oDoc.TextSelection;
  oPgf = oTR.beg.obj;
  sText = GetText (oDoc, oTR);
  oTR2 = new TextRange (
    new TextLoc (oPgf, oTR.beg.offset),
    new TextLoc (oPgf, oTR.beg.offset + sText.length));
  app.ActiveDoc.TextSelection = oTR2;
}

     This may be an error in ESTK for items fond by "search for character format".

    frameexpert
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    frameexpertCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
    Community Expert
    November 10, 2021

    The huge number doesn't prevent this from working:

    var doc, pgf, textLoc;

doc = app.ActiveDoc;
pgf = doc.TextSelection.beg.obj;
textLoc = new TextLoc (pgf, Constants.FV_OBJ_END_OFFSET - 1);
doc.AddText (textLoc, "- At the end of the paragraph");

    The length of the paragraph's text is not going to be reliable because you could have anchors in the paragraph (markers, tables, anchored frames) that will affect the offset value.

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