Re: Word scripting?
Re: Word scripting?
- Subject: Re: Word scripting?
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:35:40 +1100
On 25/3/03 5:14 AM +1000, Paul Berkowitz, email@hidden, wrote:
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The scripting of Word is notoriously unreliable precisely for things like
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this. It starts out OK, once you get your head around its 'text from 12 to 25'
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terminology, but then it goes all wrong.
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Yep. And with system errors that make trial and error a very tedious
business.
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This is likely because Word is not a text editor but a complex word processor,
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and has lots and lots of invisible characters which control paragraph style,
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etc. It was never properly translated for AppleScript, and probably can't be
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in the simple text-editor way we'd like.
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Sorry, but this just sounds like excuse-making. The complexity of text
handling in apps like QuarkXPress and InDesign probably exceeds that in
Word, and they manage to make it scriptable quite nicely.
The "likely" reason, IMO, is that it was a low priority. The technical
issues are a red herring.
--
Shane Stanley, email@hidden
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