Kino

     Thanks for the explanation and the macros

Ed

On Jan 13, 2011, at  6:00 AM, Kino wrote:

> On 2011-01-13 +0900 (JST), at 6:04 AM, Ed Wall wrote:
> 
>> I would like, somewhat as in Microsoft Word, to link a pdf to a particular word in a text. Thus, when asked for the link address in Nisus I put in the usual file:// business. However, when I click on the link it opens the directory in which the file is located, highlights the file, but doesn't launch it.
> 
> OS X used to work like MS Word but Apple changed the behaviour in Leopard or in Snow Leopard (I don't remember well) presumably for a security reason. Similarlily 'open -a Terminal script.sh' does not run the script anymore.
> 
>> This is better than nothing I suppose, but is this all there is for files or do I need to do something additional?
> 
> It is a bit tedious, but you can let the default application for the file type open a linked file by running the macro below with the insertion point somewhere in a link.
> <http://www2.odn.ne.jp/alt-quinon/files/NWPro/link/OpenLinkedFile_20110113_nwm.zip>
> 
> ### OpenLinkedFile ###
> 
> # This macro misbehaves for urls containing escaped chars (e.g. %20 instead of a space).
> 
> $sel = TextSelection.active
> $attr = $sel.text.displayAttributesAtIndex $sel.location
> if Defined $attr.link
> 	Open URL $attr.link
> 	# open file with a default app for the file type
> 	# this comand works in a way similar to /usr/bin/open
> else
> 	exit 'No url link in the selection, exiting...'
> end
> 
> ### end of macro ###
> 
> 
> I uploaded two other macros related to hyperlink.
> <http://www2.odn.ne.jp/alt-quinon/files/NWPro/link/ApplyHyperlinkStyle_20110113_nwm.zip>
> which adds 'Hyperlink' character style defined in the macro file to the frontmost document and applies it on all links in it.
> 
> <http://www2.odn.ne.jp/alt-quinon/files/NWPro/link/Link2LocalFile_20110113_nwm.zip>
> which makes it easy to insert a link to a local file.
> 
> 
> Kino
> 
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