Adobe 65009333 - InCopy CS4 - PC Manual page 32

Text and Type
Do not assume you are limited to exporting text using existing export filters. Since JavaScript can write
text files to disk, you can have your script traverse the text in a document and export it in any order you
like, using whatever text-markup scheme you prefer. Here is a very simple example that shows how to
export InCopy text as HTML (for the complete script, see ExportHTML):
function myExportHTML(){
var myStory, myParagraph, myString, myTag, myStartTag, myEndTag,
myTextStyleRange, myTable;
//Use the myStyleToTagMapping array to set up your paragraph style to tag mapping.
var myStyleToTagMapping = new Array;
//For each style to tag mapping, add a new item to the array.
myStyleToTagMapping.push(["body_text", "p"]);
myStyleToTagMapping.push(["heading1", "h1"]);
myStyleToTagMapping.push(["heading2", "h2"]);
myStyleToTagMapping.push(["heading3", "h3"]);
//End of style to tag mapping.
if(app.documents.length !=0){
if(app.documents.item(0).stories.length != 0){
//Open a new text file.
var myTextFile = File.saveDialog("Save HTML As", undefined);
//If the user clicked the Cancel button, the result is null.
if(myTextFile != null){
//Open the file with write access.
myTextFile.open("w");
//Iterate through the stories.
for(var myCounter = 0; myCounter <
app.documents.item(0).stories.length; myCounter ++){
myStory = app.documents.item(0).stories.item(myCounter);
for(var myParagraphCounter = 0; myParagraphCounter <
myStory.paragraphs.length; myParagraphCounter ++){
myParagraph = myStory.paragraphs.item(myParagraphCounter);
if(myParagraph.tables.length == 0){
if(myParagraph.textStyleRanges.length == 1){
//If the paragraph is a simple paragraph--no tables,
//no local formatting--simply export the text
//of the pararaph with the appropriate tag.
myTag = myFindTag(myParagraph.appliedParagraphStyle.
name, myStyleToTagMapping);
//If the tag comes back empty,
//map it to the basic paragraph tag.
if(myTag == ""){
}
myStartTag = "<" + myTag + ">";
myEndTag = "</" + myTag + ">";
//If the paragraph is not the last paragraph in the
//story, omit the return character.
if(myParagraph.characters.item(-1).contents == "\r"){
}
else{
}
//Write the paragraphs' text to the text file.
myTextFile.writeln(myStartTag + myString + myEndTag);
}
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myTag = "p";
myString = myParagraph.texts.itemByRange
(myParagraph.characters.item(0),
myParagraph.characters.item(-2)).contents;
myString = myParagraph.contents;