[CS3][JS] endBaseline

Question

Can anyone shine some light on how 'endBaseline' is different to just 'baseline'?

Answer 1

> The point is if you are trying to fit a text frame to its contents exactly as would happen if you did fit Frame to Contents on the last frame of a story.
No problems, I fully understand. The objective I described is the solution: you need to find a normal character in the line that is not shifted in any way and use that character's baseline value.
> Granted, a subscript will only introduce a small error, but it will nonetheless be an error.
I agree, but only in the circumstance where you use the baseline value of the shifted character instead of a 'normal' character in the line.
I think for the most part we are saying the same thing with regards to how this conversation started. If you get 'myTextFrame.lines[-1].baseline', it actually returns the baseline of the first character in the line. If that character is subscripted, superscripted or otherwise baseline shifted, then the result will not be the exact baseline you are after.
I have a script which fits story frames (like Fit Frame to Contents) and I use the following handler to ensure I've got a character in the line which is not baseline shifted in any way. One thing to watch out for, however, is when
i every
character in the line is shifted in some way, then the handler will fall back to returning the value of the lowest baseline for the line, to ensure the returned value doesn't make the frame breaks change:
>function hGetBaselineOfLine(theLine)
] app.findTextPreferences = NothingEnum.nothing;
app.findTextPreferences.position = 1852797549;
app.findTextPreferences.baselineShift = 0;
var myNormalCharacters = theLine.findText();
if (myNormalCharacters.length != 0)
]] return myNormalCharacters[0].baseline;
] else
]] var myBaselines = theLine.insertionPoints.everyItem().baseline;
]] myBaselines.sort();
]] return myBaselines[myBaselines.length - 1];