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Markus Lee
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February 19, 2024
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IndexMatic3 indesign assistance

  • February 19, 2024
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I've recently purchased indexMatic3 Pro, Everything works perfectly except I'm trying to make an index from a series of codes from a text document for a catalog but some of the codes feature a Forward slash "/" (ie: 21008/MPTKT4RSS).

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've read the manual it doesn't seem to be of assistance 

 

Thanks

Mark

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    Correct answer Robert at ID-Tasker

    I think you should contact author directly?

     

    Maybe you need to "escape" them - \/?

     

    ... 

     

    Please check Page 43 of the manual.

     

    [...] Should an expression

    contain a slash character (/), replace it by the escape sequence \/. [...]

     

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    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-TaskerCorrect answer
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    February 19, 2024

    I think you should contact author directly?

     

    Maybe you need to "escape" them - \/?

     

    ... 

     

    Please check Page 43 of the manual.

     

    [...] Should an expression

    contain a slash character (/), replace it by the escape sequence \/. [...]

     

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      Markus LeeAuthor
      Participant
      February 20, 2024

      You sir are a lifesaver, i swear I read that manual so many times honestly don't know how i missed it 🤦

      Robert at ID-Tasker
      Robert at ID-Tasker
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      February 20, 2024

      You are welcome.

       

      It's a JavaScript "thing" - in the UI you just enter "/" like most other characters and InDesign take care of the rest.

       

      But because your phrases are used "directly" in the JavaScript - you need to "prepare" them by adding "\" before some special characters.

       

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