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 12:34:14 -0700
On 2009-05-06, at 10:21:10, Mark J. Reed wrote:
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.
That's what I meant by "avoid a level of quoting" - you don't want to use 'quoted form of' on the HTML string if you're using the here-document option. You should, however, quote the delimiter in that case (e.g. " <<'EOF' " ) which I failed to do.
Here's the MJJR approach working:
set html to "<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 "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
Doesn't seem to be much of a speed difference (subjective impression) and (bonus :-), saves the extra exercise of typing "quoted form of".
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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