Quark 4.11 - Xtags 4 - Creating an index ----- help

[Ray_Barber]

Hi all

i have created a 1000 page catalogue, imported all the data from a database, so all the info is xtagged.
is there a way that i can extract the page numbers and just one part of the data, i.e the price field, to creat an index

any help would be fantastic

[jonn8]

Are your tags for local formatting (i.e., bold, italic, etc. directly applied to the text) or are they for style sheets? If they are for style sheets and your style sheet is unique to the price only (and your prices are in their own paragraph), then this is a relatively easy task:

set index_text to {}
tell application “QuarkXPress™ 4.11”
tell document 1
set the_prices to (object reference of every paragraph of every story whose name of style sheet of it = “Price”) –or whatever your style sheet name happens to be
repeat with this_price in the_prices
set the_text_box to object reference of text box 1 of this_price
set end of index_text to ((characters 1 thru -2 of this_price) as string) & tab & (name of page 1 of the_text_box) & return
end repeat
end tell
end tell
set index_text to index_text as string
–set the clipboard to index_text --uncomment this line to copy the index text to the clipboard
beep
return index_text

If you’ve used character styles, you could try something like:

set index_text to {}
tell application “QuarkXPress™ 4.11”
tell document 1
set the_prices to (object reference of every word of every story whose name of character style of it = “Price”) –or whatever your style sheet name happens to be
repeat with i from 1 to (count of the_prices) by 2
set the_text_box to object reference of text box 1 of (item i of the_prices)
set end of index_text to (“$” & (text of item i of the_prices) & ¬
(characters 1 thru -2 of item (i + 1) of the_prices) & ¬
tab & (name of page 1 of the_text_box) & return)
end repeat
end tell
end tell
set index_text to index_text as string
–set the clipboard to index_text --uncomment this line to copy the index text to the clipboard
beep
return index_text

This assumes your text is tagged like: @Description:This is some descriptive text. <@Price>$9.99<@$p>

I would suggest that you test this on a smaller document (say 3 or 4 pages) first. Running on a 1,000 page file, even on the fastest machine, is going to take some time.

Jon

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