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Dear all,

 

Having managed to extract citations from ordinary paragraphs and table cells I now want to get it also from footnotes. See the complete script and test-doc (FN-11) doc here.

 

I get the first footnote paragraph with its citation correctly.

But my construct to get the next paragraph of the footnote obviously is wrong - there is no NextPgfInFn (or NextPgf) mentioned in the Scripting Guide, only FirstPgf and LastPgf. But it is possible to have multiple paragraphs in footnotes (see test-doc). And hence the function GetText fails for the 'second paragraph' in the footnote.

 

function processFootnote (fn, doc) {
// find citations in footnotes    var fnText = "";    var fnPara = fn.FirstPgf;        while (fn.ObjectValid()) {      fnText = (GetText(fnPara));        alert (fnText);                    // the text of the cell        var citations = GetTempCitations (fnText);        var nCitations = citations.length;        alert (nCitations + " Citations = " + citations);     fnPara = fnPara.NextPgfInFn;                                               // <-------------- this is not valid    }
} //--------------------------------------------------------------------------
function GetText (textObj, doc) {  // Gets the text from the text object.  var text = "";  // Get a list of the strings in the text object or text range.  if (textObj.constructor.name !== "TextRange") {                        // <--------------- Undefined is not an object    var textItems = textObj.GetText(Constants.FTI_String);  } else {    var textItems = doc.GetTextForRange(textObj, Constants.FTI_String);  }  // Concatenate the strings.  for (var i = 0; i < textItems.len; i += 1) {    text += (textItems[i].sdata);  }  return text; // Return the text
} //--------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

What would be a valid construct to get into all paragraphs of the footnote?

 

And there the next question lures: does function processFootnote also handle table footnotes ?

 

Thanks for Your help.

Klaus Daube


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