Paragraph Style script: How to set tab stop position to the left margin?

Question

Hi all,

Does anyone know a script that creates a paragraph style and set the tab stop position to the left margin? Instead of using alignment options, I would to like to use the small triangles in the left corner as per the screenshot below:

I have found this code somewhere for the Tab stop position part:

tabStops.add({alignment: TabStopAlignment.CHARACTER_ALIGN, alignmentCharacter: ".", position: 4})

This may be a dumb question, but instead of "alignment", should I use "indent"?

Thanks in advance for the help! 🙂

Rogerio

Manan Joshi · Accepted Answer

Hey @Manan Joshi, thanks for getting back to me 🙂 The only thing is that this tabStops code uses alignment options instead of the small triangles mentioned on this post. Could you please check? The Tabs panel in the "Bullets" style should match the screenshot above. Thx!

Try the following

var doc = app.activeDocument;
var a = doc.paragraphStyles.add({name:"Bullets", appliedFont:"Arial", fontStyle: "Regular", leftIndent: "0.25 in", pointSize:7, leading:10.5, bulletsAndNumberingListType: ListType.BULLET_LIST});
a.tabStops.add({alignment: TabStopAlignment.CHARACTER_ALIGN, alignmentCharacter: "."})

-Manan

Rogerio5C09 · Answer

@Manan Joshi, the below script you shared on this post is exactly what I was looking for. Could you please adapt it as per my request above?

var doc = app.activeDocument;

var a = doc.paragraphStyles.add({name:"Bullets", appliedFont:"Arial", fontStyle: "Regular", pointSize:7, leading:10.5, bulletsAndNumberingListType: ListType.BULLET_LIST});

a.tabStops.add({position:"0p6"})

Thanks in advance,
Rogerio

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