Re: Word scripting?
Re: Word scripting?
- Subject: Re: Word scripting?
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 14:13:00 -0800
On 3/24/03 1:35 PM, "Shane Stanley" <email@hidden> wrote:
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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
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> 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
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business.
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> This is likely because Word is not a text editor but a complex word
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> 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
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handling in apps like QuarkXPress and InDesign probably exceeds that in
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Word, and they manage to make it scriptable quite nicely.
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The "likely" reason, IMO, is that it was a low priority.
I'm sure that's correct.
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The technical
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issues are a red herring.
I very much doubt that. My impression is that trying to squeeze Word's
object model into the basic Standard and Text Suites is a hopeless task, and
that to implement scripting properly for Word would require a more direct
match from its actual object model to commands in its scripting suite.
--
Paul Berkowitz
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