you have the wrong guy lol. scripting of these functions could be done through apple script as long as each function and subjected element can interact with each other. I don't do much apple script... well... not as much as I used to years ago. so I'd recommend someone more specialised in scripting environments than me to comment here. Any takers? And we start at £10.... £10 anyone for this fine script of a thing doing something? Surely?...... oh well... UNSOLD..... NEXT!
On 11 Apr 2012, at 12:38, Eugenia Firth wrote: > 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. -- 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.
