a Grep search for Footnotes

[Michel Raj]

In the book I'm working on, the authors did put the footnotes numbers in the text after the "»" and the editors wants them before...
"»1" instead of "1»"

Searching for
(»)(~F)
and replacing by
$2$1

doesn't work, because the note is lost in the replacement and I get the "<?>" instead of the note number...

Any idea ?

TIA
Michel

[William Adams]

You can either script this, so that one finds each note in turn, cuts it, moves the cursor, then pastes it back in place, or you can dump to Adobe Tagged Text and do the change there --- might be able to do it in .idml, but I'm finding that even less easy to work w/ than .inx.

William

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[Harbs]

Try doing it in two steps:

Find: ‭(?<=»~F)(.)‬
Change: »$1

Find: ‭»(?=~F)
Change to nothing
‬
Harbs
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[Michel Raj]

Thanks, this doesn't work, but I'll try to go in a similar way.

In fact, my texts are more precisely
"anyword »1"
so there's a non breaking space just after the word, and the number is of course superscript as it's the calling number of the note.

Otherwise, I'll do the changes in a .inx

Thanks
Michel

[Michel Raj]

Tried again what you said and now it works...
This look ahead way is the way to go !
Thanks again.

[Michel Raj]

Oh and just one more thing...

I had to include the end of § in the search, so I just changed (.) in (.|\r)

I found this as I had a different number of results between the two steps. ;-)

Thanks again.
Michel

Le 28 sept. 2011 à 13:35, Harbs a écrit :

[Roy McCoy]

William wrote:

You can either script this, so that one finds each note in turn,

cuts it, moves the cursor, then pastes it back in place, or you can

dump to Adobe Tagged Text and do the change there --- might be able

to do it in .idml, but I'm finding that even less easy to work w/

than .inx.

Harbs' two-step GREP seems to beat this, though it could also be

scripted and I'll do that in AppleScript as an exercise, though a

script offers no immediate advantage for a single application of it.

tell application "Adobe InDesign CS5.5"
  set find grep preferences to nothing
  set change grep preferences to nothing
  set find what of find grep preferences to "~s(?=»~F)"
  set change to of change grep preferences to ""
  change grep document 1
  set find what of find grep preferences to "(?<=»~F)(.)"
  set change to of change grep preferences to "»$1"
  change grep document 1
  set find what of find grep preferences to "»(?=~F)"
  set change to of change grep preferences to "~|~|"
  change grep document 1
  set find what of find grep preferences to "(?<=~F)»"
  set change to of change grep preferences to "~s»"
  change grep document 1
  set find grep preferences to nothing
  set change grep preferences to nothing
end tell

I modified the sequence to keep Michel's nonbreaking space

before the guillemet and to add a little space before the

footnote reference. It could likely be simplified, and I

haven't checked it with his last (.|\r) amendment.

Speaking of scripting, I didn't mention it before in this list

but Shirley Hopkins' AppleScripting InDesign CS5 and CS5.5 came off

the press a couple of weeks ago. It's excellent and I'm sure people

on this list will want to have it. The Amazon order page is at http://astore.amazon.com/yourscriptdoc-20/detail/1463797656,

but if you order direct from http://www.yourscriptdoctor.com you

get a CD included with the PDF of the book, scripts, and resources

for testing. William and I both went over PDF proofs of the book,

so it's pretty clean if we do say so ourselves.

Roy