RJay,

	Yes, Leopard has Applescript 2.0. I'm running 2.0.1. I find a lot of  
issues writing on 10.5 and delivering to clients on 10.4 and below.

	The -1728 is an unhandled case of only a separator in the read data  
on an un-even loop. I didn't think that should happen, but what about  
italicized underscores!

	The -1700 error looks to me like I failed to properly parenthetically  
group some text coercions. I suppose the handling is different under  
AS 1.10.7 and AS 2.0.1. I wrapped a lot of them up to see if that was  
the issue.

EDIT: Ah I caught Mark's reply before I sent. So it doesn't like the  
"at text on the write line? hmmm... Still, it may be the coercion on  
that line getting confused.

Fixed and replaced on my public folder.

Paul


On Oct 3, 2008, at 1:02 PM, RJay Hansen wrote:

> I was wondering the same thing (if it may have got garbled in email).
>
> Running that gives slightly different results. First I get the error:
>
> -1728
> Can't get text 1 thru -2 of "_"
>
> after dismissing that error message I get the same one I got from  
> pasting your script from email into a new script:
>
> -1700
> Can't make THE PENULTIMATE TRUTH
>  by Philip K. Dick
> etc....
>
> I'm on 10.4.11 and my AppleScript version is 1.10.7
> Did Leopard come w/a new version of AppleScript?
>
> RJay
>
>
> On Oct 3, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Paul Skinner wrote:
>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> What this does is reads your source, and spits out a properly  
>> formated RTF file. Here it works splendidly. Why you're getting  
>> that error I'm not sure. I suspect it's getting garbled in the  
>> exchange.
>>
>> If you want to try it already compiled, you can download it from http://idisk.mac.com/paulskinner-Public?view=web 
>>  under "Applescript stuff". It's named "Read and parse underscores  
>> to italics.app.zip".
>>
>> I am on 10.5.5. What's your OS version? What's your applescript  
>> verision? You can just run "version" to get it.
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>> On Oct 3, 2008, at 11:59 AM, RJay Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> Hmmm... It comes back with a -1700 error: Can't make "{\\rtf1\\ansi 
>>> \\ansicpg1252\\cocoartf949\\cocoasu.... etc. into text.
>>>
>>> I'm not understanding what the purpose of that part of the script  
>>> is for?
>>>
>>> rjay
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 2, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Paul Skinner wrote:
>>>
>>>> 	This version should be able to handle any filesize that the read  
>>>> command can handle. No text accumulation, it writes as it reads.  
>>>> I think this is pretty solid; I'll stop now.
>>>>>>