Thanks for the suggestion Mark. Unfortunately, that generates the  
same error--"Can't set text 23 thru 32 of theText...etc."

RJay


On Sep 18, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Mark J. Reed wrote:

> If theText is
>
> Here's some text with underscores (_like this_).
>
> Then the first underscore is at text position 36, but is contained
> within word 6.  I'm guessing that beginItal holds the former value,
> not the latter, so you want "set text beginItal thru endItal of
> theText", not "set words ...".  (Setting words would also replace the
> entire words "(_like" and "this_)" rather than leaving the parentheses
> alone.)
>
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 3:16 PM, RJay Hansen  
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I'm writing a script that's intended to parse out text that is  
>> enclosed
>> within underscores (_like this_). I'm using Tex-Edit Plus and Smile.
>>
>> I'm putting text selected in Tex-Edit Plus into a variable then  
>> getting what
>> I need working with the text in the variable. Once I have it, I  
>> want to
>> replace the string surrounded by the underscores (and including the
>> underscores) with the new string using this:
>>
>> set words beginItal thru endItal of theText to newString
>>
>> beginItal and endItal are the indexes of the underscores. theText  
>> is the
>> variable that the selection from the document is read into and  
>> newString is
>> of course, the replacement string.
>>
>> Smile comes back with "Can't set words 23 thru 32 of theText (it  
>> puts the
>> actual string in the error message/not the variable name as shown  
>> here) to
>> newString (and again, it puts the new string in the error message,  
>> not the
>> variable name)".
>>
>> I haven't been able to figure out why I can't do this. Any help  
>> would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> RJay
>>
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