Re: Applescript & RTF & TextEdit...
Re: Applescript & RTF & TextEdit...
- Subject: Re: Applescript & RTF & TextEdit...
- From: Denny Davis <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 22:53:08 -0700
There is another relatively Simple text processing application that does Rich Text and it is quite Scriptable, you might want to check out Tex-Edit Plus by Tom Bender http://www.tex-edit.com/ Tex-Edit Plus is Freeware.
> On Apr 18, 2017, at 01:15 , Jean-Christophe Helary <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> On Apr 18, 2017, at 16:10, Shane Stanley <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm mostly thinking of the half-baked link facility that TE offers (it would really link to local files unless you manually add "fille://" to the path you enter in the dialog etc...) which is *not* available in the dictionary...
>>
>> You might like to think about rephrasing that -- it doesn't parse here...
>
> Ah! Natural language parsers... :-)
>
> TE offers an "Add Link" function (Cmd+K), if you trigger it, you get a dialog that asks for an URI. When you paste a local file in the dialog, TE only pastes the path and not the "file://" part that would be necessary to have TE recognize the link as a link to a local file (if you omit the "file://" it says that it doesn't know which app to use to open the file).
>
> So the idea is to complement that "Add Link" function with something that adds the "file://" part for local paths. I understand that *this* does not require fiddling with the RTF code (although that is possible to do it there too, after the link is entered).
>
> Generally speaking I'm looking for ways to extend TextEdit for my prose writing purposes. Something à la petit Scrivener... It looks like TE is the only *simple* scriptable word processor on the market...
>
> Jean-Christophe
> _______________________________________________
> Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
> AppleScript-Users mailing list (email@hidden)
> Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
> Archives: http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users
>
> This email sent to email@hidden
Curiosity Killed the Cat,
but Satisfaction Brought Him Back.
_______________________________________________
Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.
AppleScript-Users mailing list (email@hidden)
Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription:
Archives: http://lists.apple.com/archives/applescript-users
This email sent to email@hidden