QXP's delimit tables
QXP's delimit tables
- Subject: QXP's delimit tables
- From: Alberto Salvagnini <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 12:59:33 +0200
Hi ,
I wort with QXpress but I never worked with QXP's delimit tables
Do you know where I can read and/or learn something about it?
Thanks
Alberto
Shane Stanley schrieb:
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I assume you're using version 4.11. The key is to use QXP's delimit table
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item. This is a table of values for every character that essentially defines
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how words are defined when scripting XPress. So you redefine the full point
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as a word member, like this:
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tell application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
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set oldPoint to delimit item "." of delimit table 1
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set delimit item "." of delimit table 1 to can be contained in word
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tell story 1 of current box
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set x to word 1
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end tell
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set delimit item "." of delimit table 1 to oldPoint
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end tell
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display dialog x
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Note that:
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(a) This doesn't change anything in the UI; and
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(b) It remains in force until you either change it or quit XPress, so you
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want to use it with care and lots of error trapping.
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It's a very useful class that was inexplicably dropped after version 3.32,
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but thankfully reappeared with 4.1.
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--
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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