Oh I feel stupid. That was the original text-accumulating version I  
hosted.

Never rush! ;)

I just posted the live  writing version "live write Read and parse  
underscores to italics.app.zip" with all the fixes from the first  
version.



sheepish,
Paul

On Oct 3, 2008, at 1:25 PM, Paul Skinner wrote:

> 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.
>>>>>>>