The findWhat should have
angle bracket feff angle bracket
within the quote marks

When this is the case, the above bookmark and note removal code doesn’t work.

You can remove these old tags with changeText():

app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = “”;
app.changeTextPreferences.changeTo = “”;
toc_dest.parentStory.changeText (false);

yes, it does, if angle-bracket-FFEF-angle-bracket is insertet as “zero width no-break space”. But if it is inserted as a note or a bookmark (the do have the same unicode value) then after the reimport there are still notes and bookmarks.

Oscar

Oscar, it’s very interesting that searching for angle-bracket-FFEF-angle-bracket doesn’t work. That’s probably a bug. But even stranger is that if you export a document with that unicode character in it as InDesign Interchange (INX) and then reopen that file, the character appears to disappear by itself! Does that happen to you, too?

You can delete bookmarks (from XPress or InDesign, which are 0xFEFF too) like this:

app.documents[0].bookmarks.everyItem().remove()

Thanks for paying me attention
Oscar

app.documents[0].stories.everyItem().notes.everyItem().remove()

But this doesn’t erase those notes/bookmarks from XPress.

var myCode = 0xFEFF;

But is there another (faster) way to find 0xFEFF and replace it with nothing.

Thanks
Oscar

you could use this the zero width no-break space to avoid a line break after “/” at strings like “10 miles/h” or “3 l/s”.

And if you open a Quark XPress document with InDesign all Xpress bookmarks (or are they notes?) will be replaced with a useless zero width no-break space.

Here is the script to erase them:

// eraseNotes.jsx

var myCode = 65279; // = zero width no-break space = 0xFEFF
var myDoc = app.documents[0];
var myCounter = 0;
for (oneStory = 0; oneStory =0; oneChar–) {
try {
if (myStory.characters[oneChar].contents.charCodeAt(0) == myCode) {
myStory.characters[oneChar].remove();
myCounter++;
}
}
catch (e){}
}
}
if (myCounter > 0)
alert (“Ready!\r” + myCounter + ” notes erased.”)
else
alert (“Ready!”)

Thanks Oscar