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Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.

by Jolly Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 4, 2008 at 02:08 PM

In article <040520081941423776%fuddled@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Fuddled <fuddled@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> I'm working in BBEdit, preparing academic do***ents to be browser-read,
> and I'd like to reproduce a script I have written for FileMaker Pro,
> which places tags round either side of a selection.
> 
> e.g. if I want to markup a word/phrase for italics, in FileMaker I can
> easily write a script that copies
> 
> selection
> 
> and replaces it with
> 
> <i>selection</i>

Why use BBEdit at all?  AppleScript can read text files and write text 
files. And AppleScript can replace text in strings. So you don't even 
need to involve BBEdit.

Try this script on for size:

<http://jollyroger.kicks-ass.org/convert/Convert.applescript>

I packed it up in a ZIP archive if you'd like to download the script and 
run it:

<http://jollyroger.kicks-ass.org/convert/Convert.zip>

Enjoy!

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Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
Fuddled <fuddled@[EMAI  2008-05-04 09:41:44 
Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
J. Stewart <cfnzrpu@[E  2008-05-04 06:50:50 
Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
Fuddled <fuddled@[EMAI  2008-05-05 02:28:24 
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   2008-05-04 20:23:37 
Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
J. Stewart <cfnzrpu@[E  2008-05-04 07:22:58 
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   2008-05-04 07:52:28 
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Fuddled <fuddled@[EMAI  2008-05-05 02:38:32 
Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
Jolly Roger <jollyroge  2008-05-04 14:08:18 
Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
Fuddled <fuddled@[EMAI  2008-05-05 02:44:26 
Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
Jolly Roger <jollyroge  2008-05-04 22:13:39 
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Fuddled <fuddled@[EMAI  2008-05-05 12:09:26 
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   2008-05-05 08:17:42 
Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
Jolly Roger <jollyroge  2008-05-05 20:56:59 
Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
Jerry Kindall <jerryki  2008-05-05 19:54:21 
Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
Jolly Roger <jollyroge  2008-05-05 22:41:58 
Re: Applescript to work with text. I'm stuck.
Fuddled <fuddled@[EMAI  2008-05-07 06:45:58 

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