Search and replace nested style in JS CS3

[Guest]

I need to find and replace numbers at the beginning of paragraph which is styled as nestedStyle. What is the code? ST Dishon

[Guest]

To clarify to my question above, I already have a script which searches paraqraph or character styles and renumbers or does any action, I just need to know the syntax for finding NestedStyles.

Thank you

ST Dishon

[Harbs.]

There is none.

You can try to infer the existence of the nested styling yourself, but

that's not for the faint of heart...

Harbs

[Guest]

Thank you for your prompt reply. Do you mean to define the specific

formatting of the nested style in the search (e.g. size, color, weight of

font)?

ST Dishon

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[Harbs.]

If there's some unique identifying formatting, then yes. That's the

way to go...

Harbs

[ramkumar_vp]

Hi dishon,

I have attached the script to convert the applied nested styles to character style.

After that you can easily do what you required.

Regards,

Ramkumar .P

[Harbs.]

Very nice.

You can check out this script as well: http://in-tools.com/scripts.html#apply_nested

Harbs

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[Guest]

Thanx. I've downloaded it and will try it at my convenience.

ST

[Laubender]

@Harbs:

At the download site of the script you write "Warning: this script will override any manually applied character styles which conflict with the nested styles!".
I tried with a lot of local formatting, but nearly all that was preserved when applying your script. The only occasion it broke was an locally formated underline gap color to a nested styled word. But that formating is rather rare as you already said at InDesign Secret's forum blog.

Are there other cases?

Uwe

[Harbs.]

It will not overwrite local formatting. It will change any CHARACTER

STYLEs which are applied to the nested areas.

Harbs