Counting line in paragraph

Question

Hello,I usually work with structured FM doc, but for once i need to work with unstructured doc.I need to make a script that check if there is only few chararter at the last line of a paragraph, and if yes, to apply a "spread -2%". and check if i lost one line.I was thinking, if i can compare the number of line of a paragraph before and after the "spread -2%" and if it's "after" is smaller than "before".If yes => i lost one line in my paragraph.In million paragaph, i can win few pages in my doc (doc large than 1.000 pages)I already have script to walkthrouth all the paragraph of a doc, another to apply and/or check paragraph values (spread).But how can i count the number of line in one paragraph?Do i have to put my cursor in each line of my paragraph and check the FTI_LineEnd (normal, hard, hyphen) to know when i reach the end of my paragraph? Or there is another way?

Russ Ward · Accepted Answer

After posting that, I thought of this, which seems to do the same thing:

var ti = pgf.GetText(Constants.FTI_LineEnd);

If it requires less memory and/or processing, that might be better. I don't know if it does or not.

Russ

Russ Ward · Answer

Hi philippep2776167,I think the easiest way to count lines in a paragraph is to retrieve the text items, then just look at the length of the array. For example:var ti = pgf.GetText(Constants.FTI_String);The length of "ti" will be the number of lines in the paragraph. For example, if the paragraph is 5 lines long, then:ti.len == 5Russ

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