Re: Styled text and non-Gregorian dates
Re: Styled text and non-Gregorian dates
- Subject: Re: Styled text and non-Gregorian dates
- From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 08:54:57 -0700
On 2009-05-05, at 17:28:33, Mark J. Reed wrote:
Awesome. I hate exercise. Thanks. :)
I've heard it said that a laughing is a reasonable substitute.
You can avoid a level of quoting by using a here-document:
set rtf to (do shell script "textutil -stdin -stdout -convert rtf <<EOF <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> EOF")
I definitely wanted to separate the HTML content variable because folks might want to assemble the content by various means. So the stages are:
1. HTML 2. RTF 3. clipboard 4. process with app
Using the 'here document' would be more succinct, however I'm having trouble getting it to work with a variable -- seems to be a quoting problem. Also the RTF output seems different. Here's a full script:
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 ")
-- Changed line causes problems. --set rtf to (do shell script "textutil -stdin -stdout -convert rtf <<EOF\n" & html & "\nEOF\n")
set the clipboard to (run script (do shell script "tclsh <<< 'binary scan {" & rtf & "} H* res;puts \"«data RTF $res»\";'"))
tell application "TextEdit" to activate tell application "System Events" to tell application process "TextEdit" keystroke "v" using {command down} end tell
Philip Aker echo email@hidden@nl | tr a-z@. p-za-o.@ Democracy: Two wolves and a sheep voting on lunch.
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