Add paragraph style only to a paragraph with 2 lines or more.

You can apply a character style to the first 2 lines and then change the character style using nested style by lines, inside the paragraph style options.

I don’t think InDesign get’s that specific with their nested styles. I also don’t think there’s a native way to tell InDesign “Apply this style only if the paragraph has greater than or equal to 2 lines.” So yes you will probably have to do them manually, or you might have to look into having someone write a script for something like that.

I don’t personally know anyone, but I would ask in the InDesign Add-ons (Scripts, Scripting, and Plug-ins) section of the forum.

This forum is a goldmine to get exercises for scripting ^^
Try this script and tell me if it works for you:
Please note:
– select a text frame, or place the cursor in order to apply the script to the whole story
– an existing character style called “bold” must exist. You can change the name on line 37 (var myCSName = “bold”;)
– script will clear all paragraphs overrides in the selected story, so be cautious
– if you don’t use the download link below and copy/paste your code, please replace opening/closing quotation marks by straight one.
here’s the download link: https://wetransfer.com/downloads/2887b2f63a8f8b3b0fd0adad10e99e7f20180116105700/19df9614bd16a55c5faf1d7bcc0eef8120180116105700/e08e08

and here’s the javascript:

//Written by Vinny
// Feel free to modify and use

main();

function main() {
//Make certain that user interaction (display of dialogs, etc.) is turned on.
app.scriptPreferences.userInteractionLevel = UserInteractionLevels.interactWithAll;
if (app.documents.length != 0) {
if (app.selection.length == 1) {
switch (app.selection[0].constructor.name) {
case “Text”:
case “TextFrame”:
case “InsertionPoint”:
case “Character”:
case “Word”:
case “Line”:
case “TextStyleRange”:
case “Paragraph”:
case “TextColumn”:
CheckifCharStyleExists();
break;
default:
alert(“The selected object is not a text object. Select some text and try again.”);
break;
}
} else {
alert(“Please select some text and try again.”);
}
} else {
alert(“No documents are open. Please open a document, select some text, and try again.”);
}

function CheckifCharStyleExists() {
var myDocument = app.documents.item(0);
var myParagraphs = app.selection[0].parentStory.paragraphs;
var myCSName = “bold”;
var myCharacterStyle = myDocument.characterStyles.item(myCSName);

if (myDocument.characterStyles.item(myCSName) == null) {
alert(“\””+myCSName+”\” character style does not exist. Please create it.”);
} else {
AddNestedStyle();
}

function AddNestedStyle() {
app.selection[0].parentStory.clearOverrides(OverrideType.PARAGRAPH_ONLY);

for (i = 0; i < myParagraphs.length; i++) {
if (myParagraphs[i].lines.length > 1) {
var myNestedStyle = myParagraphs[i].nestedStyles.add({
appliedCharacterStyle: myCharacterStyle,
delimiter: NestedStyleDelimiters.ANY_WORD,
inclusive: true,
repetition: 2
});
}
}
}
}
}

Hi,

Even if it’s not the way I’ld choose, it could of course be done natively into InDesign!

I let the curious guys search a little! …

(^/)

Salut Vincent,

2 lignes de code suffiraient, mais apparemment tu as choisi la version longue [non testée] !

(^/)

Salut Michel et… bonne année ! ^^
Je te crois sur parole, mais je suis en plein apprentissage du scripting alors j’ai sûrement tendance à être très verbeux. N’hésite pas à partager tes deux lignes, ainsi après avoir été mon Maître es GREP, tu pourras aussi devenir mon Maître es Script ^^
Quant à la possibilité de faire ça nativement, j’avoue je sèche. Utiliser Grep pour compter le nombre de caractères avant que ça “coupe” m’est bien venu à l’esprit, mais c’est évidemment très peu précis et donc à exclure. Un indice ?

Bonne Année à toi aussi (ainsi qu’à tous ceux qui ne me l’ont pas encore souhaitée … et ils sont pléthore !) !

Pour ce qui est des 2 lignes de code, elles sont depuis 2 heures sur l’autre section de ce forum [l’auteur a suivi les conseils d’Aaron] !

Pour ce qui est de la solution native, InDesign n’est peut-être pas très fort en calcul et c’est vrai qu’il a du mal à compter les lignes, mais il peut le faire ! … avec les “Styles de lignes imbriqués”. Après, c’est un jeu d’enfant avec un F/R Grep dont voici le code : .$

(^/)

Ce code Grep est … plus intéressant : .$\r?

[Grep est rempli de paradoxes !]

(^/)

English please………

This post is a duplicate entry here on InDesign Secrets. Obi-wan have already given a code to achieve this:

Add paragraph style only to a paragraph with 2 lines or more.

Year1917…
When “a few comments” happen to be a list of very specific requests, I guess it’s time to think about hiring a professional scripter.
You can ask obiwan, I’m sure he’ll be glad to help.
All the best

I meant that this forum transforms quotation marks like these:”” into curved one (not sure what the right English word is). This causes errors while it comes to JavaScript.
This is probably why you can’t get Obi-Wan script to work properly. Edit the code and replace them.