How to add Chinese Pinyin in the script?

Question

I spent a day to search the way to add Chinese Pinyin in scripting. But found nothing.

I have a lot of words to set to topics. So I have to select the words, then make the words setting to topics. Topics are sorted by Chinese Pinyin. When I do it manually, the Chinese Pinyin of target words come out automatically. See the picture below.

There are too many words to set topics. So I write a Javascript.

Here is the code:

for(c1 = 0; c1 < myTargetWordsToInsertIndex.length; c1++){
app.select(myTargetWordsToInsertIndex[c1]);

app.activeDocument.indexes[0].topics.add(app.selection[0].contents, app.selection[0].contents's Chinese Pinyin);
}

It's just the app.selection[0].contents's Chinese Pinyin, I can't find any information about it in the Object Model Viewer.

Is there anyone knows some info about this?

Thanks for your attention.

Mike Bro · Accepted Answer

Hello @Dargon Kong,

Try the snippet below and report back on what happens...

You'll have to add it to the rest of your code.

app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.NEVER_INTERACT;

for(c1 = 0; c1 < myTargetWordsToInsertIndex.length; c1++){
    app.select(myTargetWordsToInsertIndex[c1]);
    app.menuActions.itemByID(78142).invoke()

}

app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.INTERACT_WITH_ALL;

Regards,

Mike

Dirk Becker · Answer

When I search an own OMV for Pinyin, the only reference is an enumeration HeaderTypes.CHINESE_PINYIN that would be assigned to app/doc.indexingSortOptions.headerType .

Do you already set that value?

At the plug-in side, there is a similar GroupOrder, but beyond that I only see some Pinyin related dialog - is a concept called "Tone" relevant here?

Anyway, short from looking what actually happens under the hood - even with an example document that would take hours - a feature to transliterate to Pinyin is likely only implemented in the UI. I'd either have a look at UI scripting using AutoHotkey, or alternatively perform the task via an outside service - e.g. export the topic name, process it in node.js with Pinyin support via ICU transforms (I'd guess InDesign uses the same), then supply the sort order entries from the result. Maybe CEP has a matching ICU subsystem so you can stay within InDesign? As I don't use CEP, someone else would have to answer that.

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