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. >>>>>>>