Okay. This one runs, and it runs extremely quickly. The file I'm running it on is 420K and the script finishes virtually instantaneously. However, opening the resulting file in Tex-Edit Plus gives very different results than opening it in TextEdit. Items are correctly italicized in TextEdit, but the paragraphs seem to be missing. In Tex-Edit Plus, all the paragraphs are there, but the supposed-to- be-italic words and phrases are now delimited by \i and \i0 rather than underscores and their style is still plain. So I tried doing a "Save As..." in TextEdit, saving as rtf, then opened that in Tex-Edit Plus and now the italic strings are all italicized, but the paragraphs are gone. Showing invisibles confirms, there are no paragraphs. RJay On Oct 3, 2008, at 12:35 PM, Paul Skinner wrote: > 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. >>>>>>>>