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

by Fuddled <fuddled@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > May 5, 2008 at 02:44 AM

In article <jollyroger-8D2DB7.14081804052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, Jolly
Roger <jollyroger@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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.

As I'm building HTML pages, I can't think of anything more friendly.
All those pretty colours are just the thing for an Arts faculty.

I'm working on a whole collection of do***ents to present via browser,
consistently displayed, clean-and-simple, CSS etc., hence BBE.

> 
> 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!

Many thanks, Mr Roger, I'll try this.
 




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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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