RE: Quark Paragraph Numbers and other QuarkNewbie Questions
RE: Quark Paragraph Numbers and other QuarkNewbie Questions
- Subject: RE: Quark Paragraph Numbers and other QuarkNewbie Questions
- From: "Bourque, Jason" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:44:35 -0500
Thank you, future snippets will be tested before submission.
Although the concept may be sound but without testing I agree it is
dangerous to suggest to others.
Thanks for the Quark syntax correction.
Jason Bourque
MFS Investment Management
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From: Hans Haesler
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Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2000 11:37 AM
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To: AS lists
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Subject: RE: Quark Paragraph Numbers and other QuarkNewbie Questions
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Jason Bourque wrote:
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>Your repeat loop could be replaced with
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>copy return & tab to front of every paragraph of selection
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>copy return to end of every paragraph of selection
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You're right but you didn't test your snippets did you?
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The first one doesn't need the second line (in fact it generates
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an error message because the selection is gone).
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This works:
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tell application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
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copy return & tab to front of every paragraph of selection
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end tell
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The second snippet won't even compile. You'd better use something like:
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tell document 1 of application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
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set every character of every story where it is "a" to "b"
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end tell
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And it will be much faster when you replace 'character' by 'text':
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tell document 1 of application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
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set every text of every story where it is "a" to "b"
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end tell
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Hans
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Hans Haesler | email@hidden