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MakePlural script

August 17, 2006 Leave a Comment Written by Cari Jansen

I encountered an interesting challenge when working on an InDesign job recently. Over 265 listings containing details under specific subheadings, some of which needed to be altered to plural words where the listings under the subheading were delimited either by "and" or ",". This is how the following script was born, with additional help of volunteers sharing their knowledge on the Adobe InDesign Scripting forum.

I’ve cleaned things up and added functions and error handlers, and specific instructions that can be viewed by you if you edit the script in ExtendScript toolkit (or another editor).

Web Reference: MakePlural.jsx (2006, Cari Jansen)

Adobe InDesign, scripting
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