Creating an Index Marker

Markers are an instance of anchored objects. As anchored objects they are tied to a text location. Creating a marker means specifying a paragraph and an offset from the start of that paragraph. You also need to provide the same information a user might when creating such a marker. That means you must specify:

• The marker type
• The marker text

Use the same type name as appears in the user interface in the Marker Type pop-up menu. The marker text must also mirror that a user would enter.

The example below creates an index marker at the start of the first paragraph in the main flow.

var doc = app.ActiveDoc;
var flow = doc.MainFlowInDoc;
var tFrame = flow.FirstTextFrameInFlow;
var pgf = tFrame.FirstPgf;

function createMarker(doc, pgf, offset, type, text) {
    var tLoc, marker;
    tLoc = new TextLoc(pgf, offset);
    marker = doc.NewAnchoredObject(Constants.FO_Marker, tLoc);
    marker.MarkerType = type;
    marker.MarkerText = text;
    return 1;
}

createMarker(doc, pgf, 0, "Index", "animal:aardvark");