Is it possible to add custom bullets to paragraph styles via scripting ?

[Loic.Aigon]

According to the Model Object, it's not but I wanted to double check

bulletChar

Bullet

readonly

Bullet character.

I need to know if it's possible to take whatever character and turn it into a bullet character.

TIA

Loic

[Laubender · Accepted solution]

Hi, Loic!
Why not?
Make a new paragraph style in the UI with your custom bullet and test it yourself in the ESTK:

_paraStyle.bulletChar.properties.toSource();

that will give you (all r/w):

characterValue:
bulletsFont:
bulletsFontStyle:

_paraStyle.bulletChar.characterType //(r/w)

that will give you alternatively:

BulletCharacterType.UNICODE_ONLY

BulletCharacterType.UNICODE_WITH_FONT

BulletCharacterType.GLYPH_WITH_FONT

Uwe

[Jongware]

Like so many linked objects in InDesign, [Bullet] itself is read-only -- probably because it's a composite object -- but its individual properties are all r/w:

http://jongware.mit.edu/idcsjs5.5/pc_Bullet.html

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I see that this Bullet can not only set its character by Unicode value but also by GLYPH ID. Could that serve as a workaround (using convertBulletsAndNumberingToText) to insert any glyph into InDesign?

[Loic.Aigon]

Hi Uwe, Theunis,

Thanks a lot to both of you, it seems like I stopped a step too soon

Thanks theunis also for your html browser, I use it quite all day long

Loic