You can name a pattern and use the pattern as a back reference to
another parameter, including a:
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Page set name
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Page set prefix
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Position number
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Layer number
To name a pattern, include a name after the wild card and within the
square brackets, for example [#PagePosition] or [%Prefix]. You can
use any name you want, but it can be helpful to those reading the APA
file if the name identifies or relates to the information contained in the
pattern (that is page position, page set name, page set prefix, or layer
number) .
For example, "Book.p[#].pdf" could be used in the APA file to refer to
the page names Book.p1.pdf, Book.p2.pdf, Book.p3.pdf, and so on. The
numbers 1, 2, 3, and so on in the page names may correspond to the
page position numbers to which the pages will be assigned in the page
set (that is, Book.p1.pdf is assigned to page position number 1,
Book.p2.pdf is assigned to page position number 2, and so on). The
pattern can be named, for example [#PagePosition], and the named
pattern can be used as a back reference to the position number in the
ASSIGN statement.
Note: The APA Editor always uses [#PagePosition] to name a pattern used as a
back reference to the position number.
To use a named pattern as a back reference, use the pattern in place of
the relevant parameter in the ASSIGN statement. Remove any
character-count specifiers-for example, if the named pattern is
[%Prefix:2], the back reference is [%Prefix].
For example, this ASSIGN statement assigns all pages that match the
pattern to the corresponding page position in the page set named
Book-8up, that is, Book.p1.pdf to position 1, Book.p2.pdf to position 2,
and so on.
ASSIGN= "Book.p[#PgPosition].pdf" "Book-8up" [#PgPosition] 1
For example, this ASSIGN statement assigns all pages that match the
pattern to the corresponding page position in the corresponding page
set, for example, Inside.p1.pdf to position 1 in the Inside page set,
Inside.p2.pdf to position 2 in the Inside page set, Cover.p1.pdf to
position 1 in the Cover page set, Cover.p2.pdf to position 2 in the Cover
page set, and so on.
ASSIGN= "[$PageSet]-P[#PgPosition].p"
"[$PageSet].p[#PgPosition].pdf" "[$PageSet]" [#PgPosition] 1
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