Re: AppleWorks formatting and Glossary
Re: AppleWorks formatting and Glossary
- Subject: Re: AppleWorks formatting and Glossary
- From: Ariel <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:26:39 -0800
Wow! What a great list. Thanks everybody who welcomed me and helped
to point me in the right direction. Thanks especially, Tom, for the
coding information. This really helps a lot.
> 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.
That script segment would be something like:
tell application "AppleWorks 6"
tell text body of front document
get every word whose style is {on styles: italic}
end tell
end tell
stop each time one is found
Yes, I am on Appleworks 6. This is pretty much what I am looking for.
What exactly do you want to do with each one?
I have already written part of the glossary. I need to go through
the novel and make sure I have not missed any words. I wasn't
looking forward to sitting with three hundred pages of print out on
my lap and going through each page one by one.
If you just want to extract them into another document (such as a
database), so you can then fill in a definition of each
I had not even thought about doing this. You gave me a lot of great
ideas. The book is part of a series so I could use your ideas to
keep track of words in the new books.
I was not really aware of how much I could do with applescript. The
information on the Apple site and the guidebooks I installed on my
ibook didn't really give me much of an idea of practical applications
for a writer. I just realized that *from the way it was described*
by the Apple PR that applescript must be pretty powerful and if I
could just get my hands on some more explanation and references, I
could do quite a lot -- we writers often have to be our own
secretaries, marketing experts, accountants and what have you -- a
lot of hats to wear and more jobs than any one person likes to take
on. So I was pretty sure applescript could help me automate much of
what I do. Your information has been invaluable to me.
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AppleWorks, perhaps more than any other application, demonstrates a
wide range of scriptable environments, such as word processing and
database above, making it very powerful.
This is great to know. Thanks too, for all the web site links. This
is very much what I was looking for. I had a hard time finding what
I needed from my first few searches Apple and WWW searches.
Thanks again! :-D
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Warm wishes,
Ariel