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K.Daube
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K.DaubeCommunity Expert
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June 20, 2013
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Table footnotes

  • June 20, 2013
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Hello friends,

Obiously table footnotes are not the same objects as footnotes (in text flows). They are not found with the script as described in my post message/5430068#5430068. They are also flows (I assume this from the § symbol at their end).

How to access these table footnotes? I have found only properties for their format, for example TblFnNumStyle, TblFnCellPosition or TblFnSuffix).

There is no such constant as FTI_tblfn….

I welcome Your ideas.

Klaus

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frameexpert
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frameexpertCommunity Expert
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June 20, 2013

Hi Klaus, There is no special table footnote object in FrameMaker. There are two ways to get to table footnotes:

1) Loop through all of the document's Fn objects.

var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
var fn = doc.FirstFnInDoc;
while (fn.ObjectValid()) {
  // ... Do something here.
  fn = fn.NextFnInDoc;
}

This is the simplest method, but the internal list may not be in document order.

2) Process the paragraphs in document order, and for each paragraph, get a list of footnote anchor objects. I don't have time to code this in ExtendScript, but here is how it looks with FrameScript:

Set oPgf = TextSelection.Begin.Object;
Get TextList InObject(oPgf) FnAnchor NewVar(tTextList);
Loop While(i <= tTextList.Count) LoopVar(i) Init(1) Incr(1)
  Set oFn = tTextList.TextData;
  // Do something with the footnote here.
EndLoop
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K.Daube
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K.DaubeCommunity ExpertAuthor
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June 20, 2013

Rick,

The first method would be my favour (it is elegant), but it continues after the last table-footnote with the first normal footnote - thus creating a 'loop'.

I have not yet found a method to stop that loop. My first attempt fails:

function ProcessFootnote (doc) {
// find citations in footnotes
     var fnText = "";
     var fn = doc.FirstFnInDoc;

     while (fn.ObjectValid()) {
       fnText = (GetText(fn));
          alert (fnText);                    // the text of the footnote
          var citations = GetTempCitations (fnText);
       fn = fn.NextFnInDoc;
       if (fn == doc.FirstFnInDoc) {
            return;                           // ------- Does not stop the loop, === doesn't it either
       }
     }
} //--------------------------------------------------------------------------

PS will be absent for some days from this project.

Klaus

K.Daube
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K.DaubeCommunity ExpertAuthor
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July 2, 2013

This has been solved by Rick's answer to my post "Getting text from footnote".

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