Find and swap position of period/footnote

[andyizzle]

Hi everyone,

Hoping someone can help out. I have a document with about 200 references (footnotes). I need to swap the position of the full stop (or period) so that it appear after the footnote.

For example, the current layout is:

Sentence.Footnote

(Or with numbers: Sentence.12)

And I need:

SentenceFootnote.

(Sentence12.)

Is there a way to use find and replace to swap these around? I can easily find the instances by using 

.^F

but I don't know enough to code the swap. I don't fancy manually searching through 200 references to fix them all!

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks

Andy

[andyizzle]

Some example images of the text as it is:

And how it should look after:

[Peter Kahrel · Accepted solution]

There must be scripts around to do that. but it's easier to rekey it than to look for it:

app.findGrepPreferences = app.findChangeGrepOptions = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '[[:punct:]]~F';
found = app.documents[0].findGrep();
for (i = found.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
   found[i].characters[0].move (LocationOptions.AFTER, found[i].characters[1]);
}

This one swaps any punctuation and a following footnore number. Maybe the script should cater for strings of punctuation.

 P.

[andyizzle]

Hi Peter,

Many thanks for your reply. It took me a little while to figure out what to do with that code – I'm a complete novice when it comes to scripts! But once I had figured out how to get it into a suitable format and imported in to InDesign, it worked like a charm. So thanks again. 

The only improvement would be if it could specify which type of punctuation – in this case I had some brackets and quotation marks that got swapped along with the full stops.

Andy

[Peter Kahrel]

If you want to swap just the period and the footnote marker, use this:

'\\.~F'

 And to use some spcific punctuation, more than one, e.g. period, comma, and semicolon, place them in brackets:

'[.,;]~F'

 P.

[Mendi M]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for all of your scripts!

That script also works with an anchored object (which, like footnotes, is also deleted by search and replace)

I can't get it to change beyond one character.
Suppose I have an anchored object and then text in text in brackets:
~a\(\w{1,3}\)
And I want to change $2$1
How do you do that?

Thank you

[Peter Kahrel]

To move anchors after a parenthetical following them, use this:

app.findGrepPreferences = null;
app.findGrepPreferences.findWhat = '~a\\(\\w{1,3}\\)';
found = app.documents[0].findGrep();
for (i = found.length-1; i >= 0; i--) {
  found[i].characters[0].move (LocationOptions.AFTER, found[i].characters[-1]);
}