I suspect that it's because the second term is 258 characters. On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:12 PM, RJay Hansen wrote: > Using Tex-Edit Plus' "search" command from the Tex-Edit Suite in its > AppleScript dictionary, on this paragraph: > > "And, as Lantano made his way through the basement, among the cots, > stepping over people, their meager stores, saying hello here, > smiling to someone there, Nicholas thought, _My god, when he came > through the entrance he looked like an old man, weathered, dried- > out, but now, closer, Lantano appeared middle-aged; the aura of > extreme age had been an illusion due to the scrawny quality of the > man and the peculiar stiffness in the way he walked; it was as if he > were delicate, feared an injury, a fall._" > > If I do this: > > tell application "Tex-Edit Plus" > search paragraph 2 of document 1 looking for "My god, when he came > through the entrance he looked like an old man, weathered, dried- > out, but now, closer, Lantano appeared middle-aged; the aura of > extreme age had been an illusion due to the scrawny quality of the > man and the peculiar stiffness in the" > end tell > > Tex-Edit selects the string within the paragraph and the script > returns "true". However if I add one more word to that search string > like so: > > tell application "Tex-Edit Plus" > search paragraph 2 of document 1 looking for "My god, when he came > through the entrance he looked like an old man, weathered, dried- > out, but now, closer, Lantano appeared middle-aged; the aura of > extreme age had been an illusion due to the scrawny quality of the > man and the peculiar stiffness in the way" > end tell > > I get an error: > > Tex-Edit Plus got an error: Can't make some data into the expected > type > > with "search paragraph 2 of document 1 looking for......etc" > highlighted. > > Anyone have any ideas what the problem is here? A bug? > > Thanks, > > RJay