I don't have Quark, but assuming you can 'grab' a line of the text,
that the price could have one place after the decimal point, and
that you want only one place after the decimal point of the price
with tax added, this script will do it:
set aPriceLine to "Paper 11.1 22.2 33.3" as
Unicode text
set w to words of aPriceLine
repeat with k from 2 to count w
tell item k of w to set T to it & space & "(" & ((12.1 * it) as
integer) / 10 & ")"
set item k of w to T
end repeat
w
This variation should preserve any characters between words, as well
as any text encoding. (It should also skip any non-numeric words.)
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to insert_tax into s at r to p
set {p, r, l, d} to {10 ^ p, r / 100, s's words, text item delimiters}
repeat until (count l) is 0
set {i, l} to l's {beginning, rest}
if i is not in l then try
set text item delimiters to i
set t to s's text items
set text item delimiters to i & " (" & ((i + i * r) * p as
integer) / p & ")"
tell t to set s to beginning & ({""} & rest)
end try
end repeat
set text item delimiters to d
s
end insert_tax
set price_string to "Paper 11.1 22.2 33.3" (*
values must be positive *)
set tax_rate to 21 (* % *)
set dec_places to 1 (* maximum - i.e. won't pad beyond 1 place with
trailing zeros *)
insert_tax into price_string at tax_rate to dec_places
