Sections Stuff

New: Set the first sections of a book to use roman numerals.

Sections Stuff allows you to add and remove section markers throughout your InDesign document based on paragraph styles.

One main use for this script is to control footnotes. InDesign allows the user to restart footnotes numbering within a single story whenever the user has marked a certain page as a new section (via the pages panel). So the user has to go through the document adding section markers in designated places, such as chapter openings.

The problem is that if pages are added or removed in the course of designing and editing the book, these section markers will end up on the wrong page. As soon as there are a dozen or more sections, it becomes a huge hassle to have to reset all the section markers by hand.

That’s where the Sections Stuff script comes in. The script allows the user to set up all the sections in the document based on a list of paragraph styles. So, if there should always be a new section wherever the paragraph style “New Chapter” appears (for example), simply select this paragraph style from one of the scripts drop-down lists, and click OK. The script will add sections wherever it finds this paragraph style.

The user also has the option to remove all currently existing section markers.

All the user-defined settings are stored on a per-document basis and the script will remember them, saving the user the hassle of having to select the desired paragraph styles each time.

New in version 1.3: You can now choose at which section the main book starts. All sections before that will use the numbering style of the first section of the book (the first section is always the first page of the document). And numbering will restart at 1 for the main book section.

This allows you to use roman numerals for prelims – the front matter of the book – as is customary, while still being able to easily update all the sections in your entire book based on paragraph styles.

Here’s a screenshot:

To download a demo version of this script, click here. The demo version is limited to 50-page documents.

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