Add Text Anchors using Find Change

[Paul Marriner]

I have reference numbers in a book text that I want to hyperlink to notes in an appendix. Text and appendix have individual character styles for the numbers. Is there a find/change script that will find each pair and hyperlink them? I'm using CS6 but if the latest ID version could do something like this I'd rent it for a month.

Paul

[Karen Hickey]

I have no experience with GREP myself, but I feel that might be where your answer lies. There is a group on Facebook, called "The Treasures of GREP." They may be able to help!

[Andrew Brown]

Grep will not help here, a script might. An alternative would be to export the book as Tagged Text and to modify the numbers to produce something like this :

<ASCII-MAC>

<vsn:13><fset:InDesign-Roman><ctable:=<Black:COLOR:CMYK:Process:0,0,0,1><Hyperlink:COLOR:CMYK:Process:0.86,0.57,0,0.16>>

<dcs:Hyperlink=<Nextstyle:Hyperlink><cc:Hyperlink><cu:1>>

<dps:NormalParagraphStyle=<Nextstyle:NormalParagraphStyle>>

<pstyle:NormalParagraphStyle><pshadc:Black><pshadt:20.000000>This is line <cstyle:Hyperlink><Hpl:=<HplName:1><HplDest:2><DestKey:1><CharStyleRef:Hyperlink><HplLen:1><HplOff:0><Hid:0><Brdrv:0><Brdrw:Thin><Brdrh:None><Brdrs:Solid><Brdrc:0\,0\,0>>1<cstyle:>.

<pshadc:><pshadt:><pstyle:NormalParagraphStyle><pshadc:Black><pshadt:20.000000>

<pshadc:><pshadt:><pstyle:NormalParagraphStyle><pshadc:Black><pshadt:20.000000>And this is line 2.<pshadc:><pshadt:><HplDestDfn:=<HplDestName:2><DestKey:1><HplDestIdx:34><IsPara:0><Hid:0>>

This is the non-verbose version of Tagged Text as exported by ID. Most of the codes above serve no purpose, were I writing from scratch I would just include pstyle, cstyle and HplDestDfn tags.

AB

[Paul Marriner]

Thanks all. I ended up doing it manually with the help of find/change.

Paul

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