Adobe 0046100128056 - InDesign - Mac - Understanding Text Objects

CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Understanding Text Objects 81
"</td>";
}
myTextFile.writeln(myString);
}
myTextFile.writeln("</tr>");
}
myTextFile.writeln("</table>");
}
}
}
//Close the text file.
myTextFile.close();
}
}
}
Here is the myFindTag function referred to in the above script:
function myFindTag (myStyleName, myStyleToTagMapping){
var myTag = "";
var myDone = false;
var myCounter = 0;
do{
if(myStyleToTagMapping[myCounter][0] == myStyleName){
myTag = myStyleToTagMapping[myCounter][1];
break;
}
myCounter ++;
} while((myDone == false)||(myCounter < myStyleToTagMapping.length))
return myTag;
}
Understanding Text Objects
The following diagram shows a view of InDesign’s text object model. As you can see, there are two main
types of text object: layout objects (text frames) and text-stream objects (for example, stories, insertion
points, characters, and words):