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CHAPTER 6: Text and Type Understanding Text Objects 82
There are many ways to get a reference to a given text object. The following diagram shows a few ways to
refer to the first character in the first text frame of the first page of a new document:
For any text stream object, the
parent of the object is the story containing the object. To get a reference to
the text frame (or text frames) containing the text object, use the
parentTextFrames property.
story
insertion points
characters
words
lines
paragraphs
text columns
text style ranges
texts
text frame
insertion points
characters
words
lines
paragraphs
text columns
text style ranges
texts
text containers
document
spread, page, layer
notes
notes
document
pages.item(0)
textFrames.item(0)
characters.item(0)
stories.item(0)
characters.item(0)
textFrames.item(0)
paragraphs.item(0)
characters.item(0)
stories.item(0)
paragraphs.item(0)
characters.item(0)