Hi,
I want to highlight the following text with some particular condition. Is this possible by script?
Highlights are required for (red colour for reference):
1. Hyphenated text
2. Em-dash text (with space and without space)
3. superscript number with empty space (space may be in superscript or may not superscript)
thanks in advance.
by
hasvi
1 Correct answer
I can't advise on the script you are referring to.
But I'm not sure you need a script if you can achieve what you want using Grep styles or Find/Replace.
About the cases where there could be a character which is not a word character before or after the em dash, you can give this regex a try:
\w+.?\h?—\h?.?\w+
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Hi Vinny,
Thanks for your swift reply. I applied your referred greps in below script but getting output like this, and another rounded em-dash word has not been highlighted by this script. Please advice.
If possible please correct this script to get this highlights properly on x-axis of text.
Also please advice, is this long written script really required for highlights words? Please share if there is any short scripts available for highlight words with grep preference.
// Highlight function by Trevor
// http://creative-scripts.com
// Custom Scripts for Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and a lot more
// Beta Version 1
//
function highlight(what, color) {
var range, s, doc;
doc = app.properties.activeDocument;
if (!doc) {
return 'No Active Document';
}
s = app.selection && app.selection[0];
range = (s && s.properties.underline !== undefined && s.characters.length) ? s : doc;
app.doScript(f, ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT, undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'Highlight Text');
function f() {
var finds, find, l, leading, pointSize, currentChangeProps;
color = color || app.activeDocument.colors.itemByName('Yellow');
// Store current find change text settings
currentFindGrepWhat = app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat;
currentChangeProps = app.changeGrepPreferences.properties;
what = what || currentFindGrepWhat;
if (what !== '') {
// if no what is provided then the current entry in the find text panel will be used
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = what;
app.changeGrepPreferences.changeTo = '';
app.changeGrepPreferences.underline = true;
app.changeGrepPreferences.underlineColor = color;
finds = range.findGrep();
range.changeGrep();
l = finds.length;
while (l--) {
find = finds
leading = find.leading;
pointSize = find.pointSize;
leading = pointSize * find.autoLeading / 100;
find.underlineWeight = leading + 'pt'; // This is presuming that font and leading size is set to points!
find.underlineOffset = (pointSize - leading) * 1.5; // The 1.5 might need tweaking but seems to work well
}
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = currentFindGrepWhat;
app.changeGrepPreferences.properties = currentChangeProps;
} else if (range !== app.activeDocument) {
leading = range.leading;
pointSize = range.pointSize;
leading = pointSize * range.autoLeading / 100;
range.underline = true;
range.underlineColor = color;
range.underlineWeight = leading + 'pt'; // This is presuming that font and leading size is set to points!
range.underlineOffset = (pointSize - leading) * 1.5; // The 1.5 might need tweaking but seems to work well
}
}
}
/***************************************************************************************************************************************
** If text is selected then the "highlighting" is only applied within the selected text **
** Otherwise the "highlighting" is applied within the whole document **
** One could change this to apply to what ever is selected in the Find text document if one wanted to **
** To highlight the word(s) in the find text panel just use highlight(); or highlight(undefined, app.activeDocument.swatches[5]); **
** One can use highlight('Foo'); to highlight "foo" and ignore what's in the find text panel **
** The formating / styles etc. for the find are taken from the find panel **
** If one provides a swatch as the second argument highlight(undefined, app.activeDocument.swatches[5]); that swatch will be used **
** otherwise yellow will be used **
** If one provides a swatch as the second argument highlight(undefined, app.activeDocument.swatches[5]); that swatch will be used **
** If text is selected and what argument is given and the find what in the find panel is empty then the selected text is highlighted **
**************************************************************************************************************************************/
highlight('\\w+(-\\w+)+');
highlight('\\w+\\h?—\\h?\\w+');
function color3PlusHyphenateted() {
var doc, stories, n, l, lastWords, firstWords, hyphenateted, e, i, lwl, HReg;
HReg = /HHH+/g;
doc = app.activeDocument;
stories = doc.stories.everyItem().getElements().slice(0);
l = stories.length;
for (n = 0; n < l; n++) {
lastWords = [0].concat([], stories
firstWords = stories
lwl = lastWords.length;
hyphenateted = [];
for (i = 1; i < lwl; i++) {
hyphenateted = (lastWords === firstWords) ? 'H' : '0';
}
hyphenateted = hyphenateted.join('');
while (e = HReg.exec(hyphenateted)) {
for (i = e.index + 1; i <= HReg.lastIndex; i++) {
lastWords.fillColor = doc.colors[3];
}
}
HReg.lastIndex = 0;
}
}
app.doScript(color3PlusHyphenateted,ScriptLanguage.JAVASCRIPT,undefined, UndoModes.ENTIRE_SCRIPT, 'color3PlusHyphenateted');
by
hasvi
Hi Vinny,
I am using below greps to find the special characters such as "comma, end period, colon, semi colon" between the text without space, which is not allowed as per our client instruction. But I am getting superscript also while find this, is there any way to ignore superscript?
[\w\.,](\:|\;|\,|\.|\\”|\“)(?=\w)
thanks in advance.
by
hasvi
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