Is there a script to change paragraph style based on even/odd page

Is there a script or way to have paragraph style change between 2 styles based on the text being on an even or odd page?

@JustMikey – as I understand your task, the problem has nothing to do with "special" paragraph styles, but (nearly) all with anchored objects (the images and parts of the gray bar) and appropriate margin settings.
Just see the following IDML file I exported from InDesign CS5.5:
Dropbox - ImagesAwayFromSpine-CS5.5.zip
ImagesAwayFromSpine-CS5.5.zip
ImagesAwayFromSpine-CS5.5.idml
080731_Manchester-xxl_Grau.tif
Of course you could add paragraph styles to format the data automatically or optimize in other ways.
That's up to you. But you can see the principle:
Inspect the Anchored Object Options for the image and the gray bar. Also the frame fitting options for the image.
Note: See also the margin settings, that are not exactly mirrored on even and odd pages (for good reason).
Uwe

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Hi.
I am really new to scripting (please don't hurt yourself laughing at my code below ) and need some help!
The issue: The documents I author go through a translation process which takes the InDesign XML data and exports my text into a web browser tool so it can be translated. After it has been translated, the text is placed back into my document with the formatting and paragraph styles that it had when I exported it. That created a problem with Figure and Table captions as those paragraph styles have "Figure" and "Table" hardcoded into the paragraph style.
Possible Solution: On page one of each document that is generated, I list the language of that document (for example "Russian"). I think I need to write a script that goes looks at the first page and if it has a language listed (in this case "Russian") then it replaces the paragraph numbering text with a defined text ("Рисуноk" is "Figure" in Russian).
if ((app.documents.length != 0) && (app.selection.length != 0)) {
myDoc = app.activeDocument;
myStyles = myDoc.paragraphStyles;
myStringList = myStyles.everyItem().name;
// What im trying to do below: If page 1 contains text “Russian” then Change the “Figure Title” paragraph numbering style to “Рисунок ^#.” I am missing the page 1 text find function.
var myPara = appliedParagraphfstyle;
myPara.numberingStartAt: Рисунок ^#.
I’m so lost!!!! Help! Screenshots below to show what im trying to achive. Thank you so much!

Hmm, I think what you're after is "numbering expression" rather than "start at."
"Start at" is the actual number it's going to assign, to either continue from the previous number or if you're hard-coding to always start at 1, for example.
The expression is the form it'll take, with wording and spacing you're using as your format for these labels. In AppleScript, it'd be:
set numbering expression of paragraph style "Figure Title" to "Рисунок ^#. "
I don't know Javascript, but there must be something similar in the JS scripting guide.
Hope that helps!
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Is there a way to create a paragraph style based on the selection in the same way the "New Paragraph Style" dialog box does without having to go through ALL of the elements of the style individually?
Thanks

I was hoping (even expecting) that this would work:
if (app.documents.length > 0 &&
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GREP for changing paragraph style?

Okay folks, I have another one for all you smart people out there. I think GREP can be used to change formatting in the following instance, but I have no idea how to set it up.
I have a very long document, essentially a phone book-type listing of names, phone numbers, addresses, well over 150 pages' worth. The paragraph styles are fairly simple, only two per listing. The name/phone number is bold with a right hand tab with leader dots to a phone number that is flush to the right side of the column. The following lines are flush left, not bold, but indented 6pts. I've placed the text file and assigned the entire thing the NameListing paragraph style. I'd like to use GREP to find the address lines and change them to the NameListingAddress paragraph style.
Here's a screen shot to give you an idea. The left column is formatted correctly with both styles, the right column is "raw", all paragraphs formatted with the NameListing paragraph style.
Is this an appropriate application for GREP? If so, how do I set it up to only change the paragraphs that "don't have tabs"? It would save me a crapload of time.
THANKS again! --Dina

If your intent here is to use the character style to trigger a variable, as I belive it is based on your other thread, you MUST apply the character style up to the first tab to pick up the text at the start of the paragraph. There are two approaches to automating the formatting after that, but it may be too late for you to be much help.
In cases where every listing has the same number of lines it makes sense to use a unique paragraph style name (not necessarily format -- base on on another) for each lline and make it its own paragraph. Set up "next styles" to rotate through the list so each line is assigned the correct style based on the style of its predecessor. You get the rotation to sart over by making the first line style the next style for the last line. This works for manual entry and can be applied to an entire block of placed text in a single operation by selecting the text, then right-clicking the name of the first style to be applied and choose Apply <stylename>, Then Next Style.This ONLY works if you have exactly the same number of paragraphs in each listing.
The other option is to use forced line breaks instread of paragraphs and use one style for the entire listing. Set a left indent and negative first line indent, create a character style for the part of the first line that you want to appear in your header and apply it Up To ^t^n (that's a little-known trick -- if you enter more than one character in the trigger for a nested style it will activate on the first instance of any of the characters listed that occurs, so for example if you enter the word cat, your style will end on the first, c, a or t that appears inthe paragraph. ^t is the metacharacter for tab, and ^n is for forced line break) so that the style will end at either the tab, if present, or the forced line break if there is no tab (if you use a right-indent tab instead of a regualr right aligned tab [tricky to do a leader, but that's another discussion] substitute ^y for the ^t), then add a nested Line Style for one line. That line style should use a second character style that is based on the first character style you created for the name text and has no other attributes if you want the line to be the same from end to end. Sounds more complex than it is, and will work for listings with variable lenghths. The trick is to repalce your paragraph returns with forced line breaks, and will require a little thinking.
If using separate paragraph styles for each line, you'd use the same technique of a nested style up to a tab for the first line, but there is no need to get fancier since it will apply to the whole line if there is no tab. The paragraph style, in this case, would carry all of the bold and size formatting (and no need for any indents), and the character style would be nothing more than a name that will allow you to use it in the variable.

Change paragraph style from X to Y in Pages Doc

Hi
Sorry for such a simple question, but I have looked through the Applescript manual and searched this forum and can't find a solution to my problem.
All I want to do is loop through the paragraphs of a Pages document and if the paragraph style is "Body Full", then change it to "Body Half". I have tried if statements repeat statements and everything I can think of but can't seem to get it to work. I can loop through all the paragraphs and change them to "Body Half", but as soon as I try to select only those whose paragraph style = "Body Full" it doesn't change any.
Here is an example of my attempt:
tell front document of application "Pages"
repeat with X from 1 to count (get paragraphs)
if paragraph style of paragraph X = "Body Full" then
set paragraph style of paragraph X to "Body Half"
end if
end repeat
end tell
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Hello
Jim Kahler wrote:
I am also using iWorks 09. Now the indent level sets all paragraphs to the indent level of wherever the insertion point was when I ran the script.
? Still confused, it looks so easy!
Jim
Ok, i understand.
Here is the solution :
tell front document of application "Pages"
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[win][js][cs4]find/change paragraph styles without losing local overrides

Hi guys i need a little help here.
I created a javascript which will find and replace doc file paragraph styles with indesign paragraph styles. everything works fine but the problem is that when it applies the paragraph styles it loses all local overrides. i tried:
changetext(false);
but its not working is there some kind of conditional parameter that i can put in the changetext() function so that it wont clear local overrides?
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Thanks Kasyan. You're always there to save my day. Thank you very much...
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replace("T1", "Text", "T1");
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replace("2", "Heads", "2");
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I'm trying to make a simple script that changes a raw data file that has preset Paragraph style already in the exported data from a HTML calender, and once its copied over into Indesign it changes the already existing paragraph style into a diffrent paragrph style?
is this a simple script, I got no idea what the script function is to make the change of paragraphs.

Would this work? or do I got the wrong function commands?
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Hello again ... another GREP query if anyone can assist!
How can I change a completely empty paragraph line (like those found between verses in a poem, for example) to a different paragraph style so I can control the space better using GREP?

Fair point ... but if I demonstrate:
Text line here
Text line here
Text line here
Text line here
Text line here
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