Re: Capitilization and OSX dictionary
Re: Capitilization and OSX dictionary
- Subject: Re: Capitilization and OSX dictionary
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 16:59:04 -0700
On 4/19/02 9:05 PM, "Timothy Bates" <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Arthur J Knapp wrote:
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>> Secondly, I was absolutely AMAZED to discover that the following works:
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>> thePara's text some word thru some word
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Is this the syntax you mean? If so I don't get it too work here:
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set x to "Nigel Garvey mentioned this technique here a few weeks' back.
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talent is having a good memory for such posts.;)
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Secondly, I was absolutely AMAZED to discover that the following works:
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thePara's text some word thru some word"
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x's text "Nigel" thru "AMAZED"
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No. Arthur meant it absolutely literally. That wasn't pseudo-code, it was
real code for getting a random selection of the text without invoking the
'random' osax which is slow. 'some' is very fast.
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Paul Berkowitz
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