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Re: Styled text and non-Gregorian dates
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Re: Styled text and non-Gregorian dates


  • Subject: Re: Styled text and non-Gregorian dates
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 15:24:27 -0700

On 2009-05-01, at 14:50:38, Christopher Nebel wrote:

If you really meant specifically "paste", that is, working through the clipboard, then it's possible, but difficult, since it's not really supported.  Basically, you have to come up with a raw-data representation of the text, and stuff that on to the clipboard.  Pasting a link requires using RTF, which actually simplifies matters a little since it's based on ASCII text.  This example puts "A link here" on to the clipboard, where "link" is a link to http://www.apple.com:

set the clipboard to «data RTF 7B5C727466310A41207B5C6669656C647B5C2A5C666C64696E73747B48595045524C494E4B2022687474703A2F2F7777772E6170706C652E636F6D227D7D7B5C666C6472736C74206C696E6B7D7D20686572652E7D»

(That's supposed to be all one line; there's a single space between "RTF" and the hex data.)  Producing the appropriate stream of hex for your purposes is left as an exercise for the reader. =)

For those of you who don't feel like exercising, here's an example of converting HTML text to RTF on the clipboard [1]:

-- Watch out for emailer line breaks -- The HTML text is a single line.
set html to quoted form of "<html><head><title>Regular Exercise</title><style type='text/css'>body {font-family:Papyrus;font-size:21pt;}</style></head><body>Visit the <a href=''">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giza_pyramid_complex'>pyramids</a></body></html>"

set rtf to (do shell script "echo " & html & "| textutil -stdin -stdout -convert rtf")
set the clipboard to (run script (do shell script "tclsh <<< 'binary scan {" & rtf & "} H* res;puts \"«data RTF $res»\";'"))


[1] The "H*" format specifier of the Tcl 'binary' command is detailed in <x-man-page://n/binary>.
In case there is a problem with the output formatting on your machine, try using the lowercase "h*" alternate specifier.

Philip Aker
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