finding MANUALLY applied character styles

Question

Hi all,We're in the process of switching to an XML workflow, and as one of our interim steps we're applying tags to paragraph and character styles in some of our documents. I'm aware of the option to map styles to tags and this should work well for paragraph styles. However, we're looking for a way to only map the character styles that have been manually applied.As an example, we have a paragraph style for instructions that has a bold number nested at the beginning of each paragraph. In other places, the same character style may be used to bold a specific word, but it is applied manually. Is it possible to map to tags ONLY the character styles that were applied manually? We do not want tags identifying character styles that were applied via Nested Styles or GREP Styles.I am assuming this would take some sort of script, which is why I'm posting in the scripting forum. Does anyone know if this is possible?Thanks in advance,Matthew

Shonkyin-CF145T · Accepted Answer

Thanks Jongware—do you think that's a bug? I don't see how that would be a feature...

The script you provided worked...sort of. I did a test as you suggested with bold applied manually (to the words "paragraph" and "and"), via nested style (through one word), and via GREP style (all four letter words). Here's the result I got:

So it looks like the script returns a list of the words that are affected, yes? This is helpful, but in a long document, how would I know where the affected words were?

What would be really useful is if, instead of returning a list, the script could apply an XML tag to the text that is manually styled. That's what we ultimately want to accomplish. Would that be complicated? Also, would doing this for multiple character styles be as simple as repeating the text you provided and replacing instances of "bold" with a different style name ("italic," for example)? I was hoping we could achieve this using the Find/Change dialog, but with the limitations outlined in my original post it doesn't seem possible.

I clearly need to learn some scripting...it seems more and more important needed with every project! I'll have to read some books on the subject. In the meantime, thanks so much for all your help!

Matt

Hi Matt,

Please try below code, hope it will help you.

applyTag("bold", "b");
applyTag("italic", "i");


function applyTag(StyleName, TagName)
{
app.findTextPreferences = null;
app.findTextPreferences.appliedCharacterStyle = StyleName;
list = app.activeDocument.findText();
app.findTextPreferences = null;
while (list.length)
{
     next = list.pop();
     if (next.appliedCharacterStyle == app.activeDocument.characterStyles.item(StyleName))
     {
          next.associatedXMLElements[0].xmlElements.add(TagName, next)
     }   
}
}

Shonky

tomaxxi · Answer

Hey!Maybe for start try this little script. It will mark all localy applied formatting.http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2010/05/show-local-formatting-in-indesign-cs4--tomaxxihttp://indisnip.wordpress.com/

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