Intro and Can this be done?
Intro and Can this be done?
- Subject: Intro and Can this be done?
- From: Ariel <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 11:12:20 -0800
Hi, Everybody,
I am new to the list and wanted to introduce myself. I worked in
computers since the eighties (my last job was system administrator
for a big mutual funds corporation) then quit my job a year ago to
pursue a full time career as a writer. I used to work with PC's, but
like many who discovered the Mac,I prefer to work on a Mac.
I have a new key lime ibook that I work on. Recently, I got really
tired of some of the more tedious computer tasks I do as an author
and journalist and discovered applescript. I am just learning and
don't need to do much high powered stuff, but being a computer geek,
this little language looks pretty cool.
Anyway, I have a question for the list. Right now I am finishing up
a glossary for my novel. I need to go through my entire novel and
look for italicized foreign words. I am using AppleWorks and saw the
applescript to change all lower case into uppercase. So I was hoping
I could write a script to either look for the italicized words and
stop each time one is found or, probably easier, just change all the
italicized words into bold red ones (and another script to change
them back again later). This would make my work for the glossary
much easier.
I have the _AppleScript Language Guide_ and am searching other
reference material for how to do this. I don't think writing the
script would be tough -- but I am not sure there is a way to tell the
script about italics and red bold formatting. I have other
AppleWorks formatting tasks that have come up and if I could figure
out how to do those things, I could save a lot of time.
Can anybody point me in the right direction to find out how
AppleWorks formatting characteristics would be coded in applescript?
Thanks so much ahead of time.
--
Warm wishes,
Ariel