Hi Lew. I don't know the first thing about scripting, but I would be willing to pay someone else to do some for me if what I want could be accomplished with it. Here's my wish list, and can you tell me whether scripting could accomplish any or all of these things.
First I would like the ability to turn on and off the display of control characters by toggling the command on and off. This would include, but not be limited to, the display of spaces, carriage returns, form feeds, and line feeds. I would also like to be able to do an automatic transformation on a file to change it to lower case instead of upper case. Next, I would love to have a program or something that would display, on command, the line and page numbers, both print and braille, of a given location. I need it for brf files. My husband write a program for Windows that does this job, but I would like it transferred to my Mac. He doesn't know how to do that. It was suggested that he learn a language for doing that, but I don't think he's interested. Can any or all of this be done, and who can do it? regards, Gigi Eugenia Firth gigifi...@sbcglobal.net On Apr 11, 2012, at 3:06 AM, Scott Howell wrote: > Yuma, > > Thanks for sharing the script. I have been slowly working on learning APple > scripting along with lots of other stuff. :) I am amazed at how much can be > done with scripting. > > > On Apr 11, 2012, at 12:40 AM, Yuma Antoine Decaux wrote: > >> Hi Guys, >> >> Just wanted to drop you guys a little script i made to help you with copy >> and pasting stuff from pdfs web or anything actually. >> >> The basic premise here is to copy whatever sentence paragraph or whatever >> text you have, use the copy last phrase to clipboard command and my script >> will automatically paste it to the end of your text editor window. >> >> This is very useful if you have long text that you want copied and pasted >> from pdf files just as they are supposed to be without wasting time on >> switching apps, reformatting etc. >> >> Here's the script: >> >> set thetext to get the clipboard >> tell application "TextEdit" >> set theindex to every paragraph of front document >> set thecount to count theindex >> set thecount to thecount + 1 >> set paragraph thecount of front document to thetext >> >> say "pasted to text editor" >> end tell >> >> >> Copy it all, paste it into your applescript editor which is >> /applications/utilitiesapplescript editor >> / >> >> The best thing to do next is to apply a gesture to the script. >> >> Here is how i do this: >> >> I have option one finger flick down to read the next sentence >> >> Option tow finger flick down for next paragraph >> >> Then i have option four finger flick left to copy last phrase to clipboard >> >> Lastly, i use option pinch out for running the script >> >> With this, every paragraph you want to copy is then pasted without switching >> to the text editor and back. >> >> I'll make a better version later on but if you want to play with this one >> already and test it out, be my guest :) >> >> >> I might make a short podcast to demonstrate how faast one's productivity can >> get with this technique >> >> Yuma >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
