Re: Quark: short & sweet script: delete to end
Re: Quark: short & sweet script: delete to end
- Subject: Re: Quark: short & sweet script: delete to end
- From: JJ <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:42:06 +0100
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Message: 4
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Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 16:05:17 -0700
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To: Michael Turner <email@hidden>,
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From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Quark: short & sweet script: delete to end
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at 3/21/01, 9:33 AM -0500, they whom i call Michael Turner wrote:
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> I wish I had written this script about 8 years ago. It deletes from the
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> current cursor position to the end of the current story. Very useful to
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> speed working with large documents.
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> tell application "QuarkXPress 4.11"
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> activate
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> tell document 1
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> set tool mode to contents mode
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> set OffSetStart to (offset of selection)
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i hate to quell your enthusiasm, but did you know you can
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just press command-option-shift down-arrow (which selects
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from current insertion point to end of the story) and then
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delete? probably faster than invoking a script. you can
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"delete to beginning" similarly, and left- and right-arrow
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go to beginning/end of line... leave off the shift key and
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the insertion point is moved without selecting, which can
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be handy to jump the view or position the cursor into
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overset text.
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steve harley email@hidden
Michel Turner's message was the third and fourth the yours.
Aren't you ashamed? Give him a day!