Google Apps Script in Google Doc - How to merge 2 format in 1 paragraph-CodePudding

How do I combine both into 1 paragraph instead but with different formatting? Something like concatenate?

function insertControlPara() {
  var paraControlStyle1 = {};
  paraControlStyle1[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_FAMILY] = 'Calibri';
  paraControlStyle1[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_SIZE] = 11;
  paraControlStyle1[DocumentApp.Attribute.HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT] = DocumentApp.HorizontalAlignment.JUSTIFY;
  paraControlStyle1[DocumentApp.Attribute.LINE_SPACING] = 1.5;
  paraControlStyle1[DocumentApp.Attribute.SPACING_BEFORE] = 10;

  var paraControlStyle2 = {};
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_FAMILY] = 'Calibri';
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_SIZE] = 8;
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT] = DocumentApp.HorizontalAlignment.JUSTIFY;
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.LINE_SPACING] = 1.5;
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.SPACING_BEFORE] = 10;
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.FOREGROUND_COLOR] = '#980000';

  var text1 = body.setText('Paragraph <Normal Text, Calibri, 11PT, 1.5 Spacing, Space before Paragraph> ');
  var text2 = body.setText('Paragraph <Normal Text, Calibri, 8PT, 1.5 Spacing, Space before Paragraph> ');
  var paraText = text1   text2;
  body.appendParagraph(paraText);
}

The result should be this:

CodePudding user response：

Use the function merge()

Using the merge() function concatenates the second paragraph with the previous paragraph. Appending two existing paragraphs, like in your case, requires the usage of the function getChild(). In your case, you may use the following script:

function insertControlPara() {
  var paraControlStyle1 = {};
  paraControlStyle1[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_FAMILY] = 'Calibri';
  paraControlStyle1[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_SIZE] = 11;
  paraControlStyle1[DocumentApp.Attribute.HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT] = DocumentApp.HorizontalAlignment.JUSTIFY;
  paraControlStyle1[DocumentApp.Attribute.LINE_SPACING] = 1.5;
  paraControlStyle1[DocumentApp.Attribute.SPACING_BEFORE] = 10;

  var paraControlStyle2 = {};
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_FAMILY] = 'Calibri';
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.FONT_SIZE] = 8;
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.HORIZONTAL_ALIGNMENT] = DocumentApp.HorizontalAlignment.JUSTIFY;
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.LINE_SPACING] = 1.5;
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.SPACING_BEFORE] = 10;
  paraControlStyle2[DocumentApp.Attribute.FOREGROUND_COLOR] = '#980000';

  //Changes start here
  var body = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument().getBody();
  var par1 = body.getChild(0); //assigns the first paragraph to par1
  var par2 = body.getChild(1); //assigns the second paragraph to par2
  par1.setAttributes(paraControlStyle1);
  par2.setAttributes(paraControlStyle2);
  par2.merge(); //merges the two paragraphs

}

In this modified script, I used the following test case:

Wherein Test 1 will be referred to as par1 and Test 2 will be referred to as par2 in the script. After storing the paragraphs in their respective variables using the getChild function, the setAttributes() function was applied based on your settings before merging the paragraphs using the merge() function. The output should look like this:

Please take note that there should be no new line between both paragraphs before merging since the new line will also be counted as a child.

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CodePudding user response：

I think the answer to your question is to use the merge method.

Example