A script to loop a Mutiparagraph Style in indesign

[Ebere Vivian27470795a4rs]

I am trying to work on a dictionary document. I have created Paragraph styled for each paragraph but I noticed indesign does not allow you to loop more than three multiparagraphs styles in canva. I wanted to know if there was a script for that. 

I have created Paragraph styles that goes like this

1. 'Apply Style 1 to Line A'

2. Apply Style 2 to Line B

3. Apply Style 3 to Line C

4. Apply Style 4 to Line D

5. Apply Style 5 to Line E

Sometimes a word might have two meanings so:

6. Apply Style 1 to Line F

7. Apply Style 2 to Line G

7. Apply Style 6 to Line H

Is it possible to get a script for multiple paragraph styles like this.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Not sure what do you mean? 

You can have as many ParaStyles defined in your document as you want. 

You can also use NextStyle option. 

If you've your data in a database - maybe you could use DataMerge?

As long as it doesn't require human decision - it can be fully scripted / automated - but even if user needs to make a decision at some point - the rest still can be scripted / automated. 

[Thunder-Lightning]

Hi,

not exactly sure what you meant by 'loop more than three multiparagraphs styles in canva'.

Also not sure what are the paragraph structure for Lines F to H so can't offer a scripting solution.

If you wanted to go with the 'Next Style' method, you could create new paragraph styles for lines F to H, e.g. Style 6 that is based on Style 1 for line F, Style 7 that is based on Style 2 for line G and Style 8 for line H, and each paragraph style has a Next Style set to the next paragraph style (except the last paragraph style). You select each dictionary word paragraphs and right-click the paragraph style 'Style 1' to choose 'Apply Style 1, then Next Style'.