Getting text from footnotes
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...
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Thank You, Ric, that worked.However, i had to add a 'stop', because an endless number of empty footnotes were found.function processFootnote (fn, doc) { // find citations in footnotes var fnText =...
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Hello friends,Obiously table footnotes are not the same objects as footnotes (in text flows). They are not found with the script as described in my post message/5430068#5430068. They are also flows (I...
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Hi Klaus, The code in your function is not quite right. The way I understand it, you are using the processFootnote function to process a single footnote. If that is the case, then this line: while...
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Hi Klaus, There is no special table footnote object in FrameMaker. There are two ways to get to table footnotes: 1) Loop through all of the document's Fn objects. var doc = app.ActiveDoc; var fn =...
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Rick,The first method would be my favour (it is elegant), but it continues after the last table-footnote with the first normal footnote - thus creating a 'loop'.I have not yet found a method to stop...
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Hello David, You are not manipulating the text inset but a copy of the text inset's filename. Your parameter "pathtosource" is a local copy of the property you read from the actual text inset. Try this...
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Thank you very much, Jang! That does the job. (For anyone else who is reading and trying this, Jang's line textinset.TiFile "c:\\B.fm" should have been: textinset.TiFile = "c:\\B.fm" just a typo in the...
View ArticleRe: Getting text from footnotes
Thanks Rick - this solved the problem. Now I'm able to collect the citations in- ordinary paragraphs,- table cells- foot notes- table foot notes.For the purpose of my project I postpone looking into...
View ArticleRe: Table footnotes
This has been solved by Rick's answer to my post "Getting text from footnote".
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Hello friends, Now that I have managed to find citations (special strings) in paragraphs, footnotes, tables and table footnotes - all with your generous help - I need to find out the file name (path)...
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