Re: IS: Script Editor Styles Format Change Script -- WAS: Re: String to list conversion
Re: IS: Script Editor Styles Format Change Script -- WAS: Re: String to list conversion
- Subject: Re: IS: Script Editor Styles Format Change Script -- WAS: Re: String to list conversion
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2004 23:28:55 -0700
On 9/14/04 7:17 PM, "Johnny AppleScript" <email@hidden> wrote:
> Here's a question: I was quite surprised to learn Paul B. uses the default
> formatting styles; is he the only one? I thought everyone hated the defaults
> and changed them within minutes of trying to script seriously. Seems like
> just about every AS book or primer article I've read suggests this in the
> first few paragraphs or chapters.
All those books were written back in OS 7/8/9 days. The default formats then
were all black (various fonts and bold and italic styles, but all black), so
all the books written since AppleScript Formatting osax recommended, quite
reasonably, that you change them to adopt colors and other styles. I did so
myself. In OS 10.0-10.2 I didn't care for the new default colors and styles,
so again I set my own (same as in OS 9). In 10.3 I rather like the defaults
(including the purple "uncompiled" style, which would have never occurred to
me) to I left them as is to try them out. I still like them. I find that the
styles are sufficiently distinctive - and the "Variables and subroutine" the
same green I always used - that I don't need to add underlining as I used
to.
Now that we have HTML on this list, there's a further advantage in using the
defaults in that they'll probably offend the least number of people...
--
Paul Berkowitz
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