Two paragraph style in one script?

Hi all,
I have two paragraph styles, the first is applied to first, 3°, 5°, ... lines, and the second to second, 4°, 6°, 8°... lines.
how i can group them in the one script?
Please revert if you have not clear.
Thanks & Regards

Just in case sorour needs it to do something more complicated, it's simply<br /><br />>for (var i=0; i<app.activeDocument.selection[0].paragraphs.length; i++)<br /><br />> if ((i & 1) == 0)<br /><br />> app.activeDocument.selection[0].paragraphs[i].appliedParagraphStyle = "style a";<br /><br />> else<br /><br />> app.activeDocument.selection[0].paragraphs[i].appliedParagraphStyle = "style B";<br /><br />>next i<br /><br />Select all paragraphs and run the scriptette.<br />This script, and any other solution, runs on <br />i paragraphs,<br />not <br />i lines.<br />Note the distinction; you can't apply a paragraph style to a single line, only to paragraphs. If you intended something for consecutive lines in a single paragraph, it'll get a bit more complicated.

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Hi everyone,
When I change the heading title within my text box, I select the heading and then select the appropriate style. Instead of just changing the heading, the body text changes as well. Is there a setting that's causing this to happen?
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First Bug: Simply having a layer selected (even a text layer) and then clicking the "Create New Paragraph Style" will create a generic style (with default settings). You have to tell Photoshop what settings it is that you want to create a style with. Simply double-click the text layer icon (not the layer name or the blank area around it) and this will open the text layer for editing and select the text. Now when you click the "Create New Paragraph Style" button, the settings of the selected text will be made into a style. This is how they are performing the step in the video as well, but from your description it sounds like you are skipping a step. And remember, there are two different ways of creating text: single click the Text tool to create line (character) text, click and drag a text box to create paragraph text. That is why we have both Character Styles and Paragraph Styles.
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Multiple paragraph styles in one line

I'm creating a training manual and I am having trouble with paragraph styles. Here's an example of what I am trying to do:
"The Dog walks up the hill"
In the above example, I have created a style for the bolded text and connected it my table of contents. The idea is when I create and update the TOC, "The Dog" will be the entry with the remaining text omitted from the TOC. The issue I am having is because the text is on one line, I cannot have multiple styles. I've tried writing just "The Dog" and then either changing the style or deleting the paragraph break to connect the text below to the main line. Once I erase the paragraph break and the text is on one line, only ONE style is maintained. Now, I can modify the character style; however, because the paragraph style is still the one connected to the TOC, the entire paragraph appears in the TOC.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! I've searched everywhere to no avail.
Thank you very much for your support.

ajmiddle18 wrote:
I'm creating a training manual and I am having trouble with paragraph styles. Here's an example of what I am trying to do:
"The Dog walks up the hill"
In the above example, I have created a style for the bolded text and connected it my table of contents. The idea is when I create and update the TOC, "The Dog" will be the entry with the remaining text omitted from the TOC. The issue I am having is because the text is on one line, I cannot have multiple styles. I've tried writing just "The Dog" and then either changing the style or deleting the paragraph break to connect the text below to the main line. Once I erase the paragraph break and the text is on one line, only ONE style is maintained. Now, I can modify the character style; however, because the paragraph style is still the one connected to the TOC, the entire paragraph appears in the TOC.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated! I've searched everywhere to no avail.
Thank you very much for your support.
It depends on the breed of dog.
Is the paragraph always a single line?
Is this dog the leader of the pack? IE, does the phrase you want to keep always begin the paragraph? If so, then you can separate the dog from the pack in the TOC. One way is to surround the pack with a unique character or marker in the main text, like End Nested Style Here, - one after dog, and another after hill, and create a paragraph style for the doggie paragraph to use in the TOC. This paragraph should contain a nested character style that applies microscopic text properties, like paper character color, font .1pt, and horizontal scale .1%. The TOC entries should use nested paragraph styles; the source paragraphs need you to insert the End Nested Style Here markers. The nested style definition in the TOC paragraph styles should apply no character style through the first end nested style marker, then apply microscopic through the next end nested style marker. This will shrink the walks...hill text to an invisible speck, so small that it shouldn't interfere with tab leaders and page-references.
Another approach is to use a single-row table for the heading, with the dog pent nicely in the left cell, and the pack in the right cell. Each cell contains a paragraph, so only extract the dog to the TOC.
Search Google for terms like "InDesign hide part of paragraph in toc knowhowpro," "InDesign suppress part of paragraph in contents knowhowpro," "InDesign two paragraph styles on one line," and similar phrases without quotes for some good discussions and a variety of approaches that include layers, anchored frames, and conditional text.
Search Google for terms like "InDesign conditional text," and "InDesign nested paragraph styles," without quotes for details.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3206266 has a long discussion that may shed some additional light.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
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Need to keep two paragraph styles on same line

Coming from Ventura and need to recreate all publications in Indesign - can't find the equivalent of "breaks - line break: none". Need to keep two paragraph styles on same line.

Like Ventura, FrameMaker has been able to do this for decades.
You're correct about zero leading being inadequate, if not only in appearance, but also for maintaining the document through changes, especially if someone other than you needs to edit it.
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[EDIT] If you think this is an important feature enhancement that should be included in a future InDesign release, post a formal feature request in the form here: WISH.[/EDIT]
HTH
Regards,
Peter
Peter Gold
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MW Design wrote:
InDesign cannot create side-by-side paragraphs. The only viable work-around is to use tables.
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Mike
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In Pages (5.5.1) can I create multiple Paragraph Styles within one paragraph?

In Pages (5.5.1) can I create multiple Paragraph Styles within one paragraph.
I need to make a table of contents for my Mater's Thesis and want to use the automatic table of contents feature. I want the first sentence of a paragraph to have a different paragraph setting than the rest of the paragraph. Is this possible?
Thanks!

Nice of you to be doing this for your Mother's Thesis.
There are several issues here:
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Peter
Apple's marketing slogan:
Pages 5.5.1 - Can't Do That!

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You have to define a running header based on a character style and apply
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I'm using paragraph styles but is not helpful because I'm trying to apply 2 different styles within the same sentence which is not working.
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Thank you

pchinique wrote:
I'm using paragraph styles but is not helpful because I'm trying to apply 2 different styles within the same sentence which is not working.
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HTH
Regards,
Peter
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How can you have two link styles on one page?

I have one style (formatted link style) for internal links in
my footer but I want a different style for the external links in my
mainContent. Is it possible to have two different "styles" of links
on one page? I tried creating a new set for the mainContent links
and being positioned underneath my footer link's styles, the "new"
mainContent link styles overrode the footer link style. Is there
another way of going about this?
Thanks anyone, Julie

Julie:
> I'm just not code savvy.
As long as you permit yourself to offer this argument, you
will struggle
with Dreamweaver. If you are serious and want to improve, you
will have to
overcome your code-phobia.
What is in these two files?
> <link href="css/area.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
> <link href="css/footlinks.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
> media="screen"
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> Murray, I was just looking over my code and noticed the
links in my footer
> are
> styled, in the first place, by a class I created in my
main.css (for all
> of my
> pages) called ".webdis" (nickname for webmaster and
disclaimer). I do see
> my
> link format style in the head of this document but am I
supposed to see it
> where the footer is (in the code)?
>
> If you look at the first external link (the only one I
have attached a
> link to
> so far):
> </p>
> <p class="contentlinx"><a href="
http://www.hotsprings.org/">Hot
> Springs
> Convention & Visitor's Bureau</a><br
/>
>
http://www.hotsprings.org/<br
/>
> </p>
>
> It took on same style as my footer links. I'm a little
frustrated, it just
> seems like it should be so simple. I'm ready to launch
this thing tonight
> and
> this is the only "little" thing I have left to do. I
hate to cheat and
> make
> each one of these site links a graphic and link it as a
graphic, but I am
> so
> ready to get this thing up.
>
> I'm just not code savvy. I am going to attach my code to
this reply and
> maybe
> you can tell me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks, Julie
>
>
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0
Transitional//EN"
> "
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="
http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=UTF-8" />
> <title>Area Interests</title>
>
> <link href="css/main.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
> <style type="text/css">
> 
> </style>
> <link href="css/area.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css" />
> <link href="css/footlinks.css" rel="stylesheet"
type="text/css"
> media="screen"
> />
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <div id="wrapper">
> <div id="header"></div>
> <div id="sidebar">
> <p align="center"><a
href="index.html"><img
> src="images/vert_nav_bar/home_button.jpg"
alt="navigation button to home"
> width="155" height="50" /></a><a
href="property.html"><img
> src="images/vert_nav_bar/property_button.jpg"
alt="navigation button for
> property" width="155" height="50" /></a><a
href="maps.html"><img
> src="images/vert_nav_bar/maps_button.jpg"
alt="navigation button for maps"
> width="155" height="50" /></a><a
href="gallery.html"><img
> src="images/vert_nav_bar/gallery_button.jpg"
alt="navigation button for
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> gallery" width="155" height="75" /></a><a
href="gallery.html"><img
> src="images/vert_nav_bar/area_button.jpg"
alt="navigation button for area
> interests" width="155" height="75" /></a><a
href="contact.html"><img
> src="images/vert_nav_bar/contact_button.jpg"
alt="navigation button for
> contact
> us" width="155" height="75" /></a></p>
> <div id="sidephoto"><img
src="images/tree_flower.jpg" alt="garvan tree
> flower" width="145" height="275" /></div>
> </div>
> <div id="header2">
> <h2 class="style2">AREA INTERESTS</h2>
> </div>
> <div class="proptext" id="content">
> <p>HOT SPRINGS NATIONAL PARK, ARKANSAS</p>
> <div id="photofeature"><img
src="images/garvin_stream.jpg" alt="garvan
> gardens" width="275" height="218" /></div>
> <p align="left">America's first resort, also
referred to as "The
> Spa
> City", Hot Springs definitely has a pulse
> of its own. Visit the sites below to find out why this
is one of
> the
> most popular vacation destinations in the South.
Featuring world famous
> natural
> hot springs, historic bathhouse row, and thoroughbred
horse racing at
> Oaklawn
> Park. The perfect place to relax, the perfect place for
adventure, Hot
> Springs
> provides a year-round opportunity for outdoor
recreation, world-class bass
> fishing and fabulous water sport activities, hiking,
horseback riding and
> quartz crystal hunting. In fact, take a day trip to
Murfreesboro to the
> Crater
> of Diamonds State Park, the only diamond-producing site
in the world that
> is
> open to the public and try your hand at diamond hunting
or searching for
> 40
> other types of semi-precious stones, rocks and minerals.
Garvan Woodland
> Gardens, a 210 acre forested peninsula jutting into Lake
Hamilton with a
> showcase of floral landscapes, streams and waterfalls,
is a "must
> see". Hot Springs has a strong art community as
well. Enjoy artist's
> galleries, film-making events and musical venues all
over town. Did I
> mention
> historical architecture? There is too much to mention
here about this
> wonderful
> city, please see for yourself by visiting the local
sites below to see
> what's
> happening in and around town.<br />
> </p>
> <p class="contentlinx"><a href="
http://www.hotsprings.org/">Hot
> Springs
> Convention & Visitor's Bureau</a><br
/>
>
http://www.hotsprings.org/<br
/>
> </p>
> <p class="contentlinx">Facts About Hot
Springs<br />
>
http://www.hotsprings.org/media_room/news-detail.asp?news_id=9</p>
> <p class="contentlinx">City of Hot Springs<br
/>
>
http://cityhs.net/</p>
> <p><span class="contentlinx">The Greater Hot
Springs Chamber of
> Commerce<br />
>
http://www.hotspringschamber.com/</span><br
/>
> </p>
> </div>
> <div id="footer">
> <p><span
>
class="webdis">WEBMASTER | &
> nbsp;<a
href="disclaimer.html">DISCLAIMER</a></span></p>
> </div>
> </div>
> </body>
> </html>
>

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I hope I've come to the right place.
I have a small problem. I'm trying to add two different FX Styles to a text layer, is this possible and If so, how would I go about doing this?
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- After both (forcing whatever town/county is next to goto the top of the next column)
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I am now wondering about a possible solution. It would be one hell of a challenge for me to figure out how to code it, but I at least need to figure out the theory first, then I'll try to figure out how to code it.
Again, the issue at hand is preventing column breaks for the "listing" style in the following example. Please note, the number of "listing" lines varies. If the following two entries (in a long list of similar entries) were to be near the end of a column, I'm trying to cause the flow of text to break only before a county style, or a town style (if it's not the first town in the county). Basically, no breaks in the middle of listings.
Countyland <styled "county">
Utopiatown <styled "town">
46 Appletree Lane ...... $500,000 <styled "listing">
Sold by: Some Guy   <styled "listing">
Bought by: Other Guy <styled "listing">
Mortgage: This Bank <styled "listing">
Date: 12/14/11 <styled "listing">
Dystopia Village <styled "town">
47 Orangeplant Road ...... $400,000 <styled "listing">
Sold by: Some Guy   <styled "listing">
Bought by: Other Guy <styled "listing">
Mortgage: This Bank <styled "listing">
Date: 12/14/11 <styled "listing">
Naomi previously suggested messing with the "keep options" in the styles. This will solve the issue of preventing breaks before listing details start. But it won't help in keeping listing details from breaking, since the number of lines can vary.
I'm now thinking ... might it be possible to have a script search all copy, looking for the last line of listings, and then apply a second listing style with a different keep option setting? The "normal listing" style would "keep next 1 line". The "last listing" style would not, therefore, allowing a break.
Here's a map of what I'm thinking: (bear with me on the terrible syntax, this is just for illustrative purposes)
listingNormal has keep with next 1 line applied
listingBreak does not keep with next line
if currentLineStyle == listingNormal
AND
style of next line != listingNormal {
currentLineStyle = listingBreak
Does this make sense? If so, does this sound feasible?
Thanks any and all.
~Nate

IBooks Author table of contents does recognize paragraph styles

The video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2p08-NmqfQ
shows that using iBooks Author I should be able to have text that is formatted with specific Paragraph Styles show automatically in the Table of Contents. But for me that does not work. My version of ibooksAuthor is version 2.1.1 ( the latest) , under OS 10.9.1 (the latest) on an iMac.
The video shows the Inspector for TOC as a separate window and shows explicitly, under Sections, the items Copyright, Dedication, Foreword, Section and Section Text. It also has two Paragraph styles listed, Heading 1 and Heading 2.
This set of TOC entries is available for me with templates from Landscape with Portrait but NOT with templates of Portrait. The templates available for Portrait do not list, in the TOC Inspector, Heading 1 or Heading 2.
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The iBA Help has info on: table of contents
Which includes:
Each book comes with a table of contents that is updated automatically. You can view the table of contents at any time by selecting Table of Contents in the sidebar. The table of contents includes a default set of items, but you can change which items appear. A table of contents can include:
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The way the table of contents looks depends on the current page orientation. In landscape orientation (shown below), each chapter has its own contents page, with navigation buttons at the bottom. In portrait orientation, the entire book’s table of contents is visible as an expandable list.
Add or remove items in the table of contents
If the Document inspector isn’t open, click Inspector in the toolbar and click the Document Inspector button.
Click the TOC button.
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To add an item: Click the Add pop-up menu , choose Add Paragraph Style, and choose an option from the submenu.
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Table of contents/paragraph style question

In my dissertation I have many figures with an associated TOC for the figures. I have one paragraph style for the figure label/description and this is what is used in the TOC. Everything is perfect except for some of the figure descriptions are much too long to be included in the TOC. For these long descriptions, I would like to select only a portion to be included in the TOC.
I attempted to make and additional paragraph style to apply to the remainder of the description that matched the original 'figure' style, but named differently so as not to be included in TOC. Unfortunately, I found that a paragraph style means the whole paragraph so the figure description is all in or all out of the TOC.
Is there a way to apply two different styles in one paragraph so I can split up what is included in the TOC? Any other ideas?
If all else fails I will just make a hidden layer with the short description right next to the real one. I'm afraid this me mess up my numbering scheme though.
Thanks for any insight,
Joel

Adding the second paragraph is probably more trouble than it's worth, particularly if you're numbering automatically. Among other things, that's going to result in double entries unless you do it for all of the figures and use only the hidden tags.
Why not just edit the text directly in the TOC after you flow the TOC story? There's no law against that, and it's common practice to do so.
Peter

How do I access *load paragraph styles* from the styles pallet menu?

Adobe help informs me that I can bring styles from other documents into an existing document by doing this:
"To copy paragraph styles from one publication to another choose Load Paragraph Styles from the Paragraph Styles panel menu."
I do not see any menu in the paragraph style menu. I am in CS5. What am I missing?

I'm sorry, I found it. I had to go back to my G4 and the CS version to see what to do. I did not recognize the small feature on the window yielding the menu.

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