In article <050520081244174441%fuddled@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Fuddled <fuddled@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 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.
That may be, but in actuality, you are automating a search and replace
operation that has nothing at all to do with BBEdit. Sending commands to
BBEdit will only slow things down, because BBEdit will have to draw each
change in selection and so on to the screen. The job you are actually
doing has little to do with BBEdit - so why complicate things?
> > 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.
You're welcome.
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