Get Paragraph number

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credneb
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Joined: 2007-03-28 07:30:34

Get Paragraph number

Post by credneb »

For a variety of editing tools, I would like to select the paragraph where the insertion point is placed as a first step. This can be done using:

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Select Previous Paragraph
Select Next Paragaph
I tried

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Select Relative Paragraph 0
but this doesn't work.

Or, it could be done using

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Select Paragraph (number)
except I can't find any way for the macro to Get Paragraph number. Is there a way?

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Kino
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Re: Get Paragraph number

Post by Kino »

credneb wrote:I can't find any way for the macro to Get Paragraph number. Is there a way?
No. As of the version 1.2, there is not a reliable way to do so. You could try something like this:

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$sel = TextSelection.active
$i = 1
while Select Previous Paragraph
	$i += 1
end
Select Paragraph $i
exit $i
but the paragraph number returned by it differs from the one shown by NW Pro when there is a table and the code is obviously stupid if your purpose is just to "select the paragraph where the insertion point is placed".
credneb
Posts: 187
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Re: Get Paragraph number

Post by credneb »

Thanks for confirming that there is no way to get the paragraph number in a macro.

I guess that there is likewise no way to get the number of the other objects used by the various Select (object) [i]number[/i] commands. If you can't get the number, I can't see a use for these commands -- but I'm sure someone will.
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