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Be happy to. I'll do so directly. RJay On Oct 3, 2008, at 4:56 PM, Paul Skinner wrote: > Thanks for posting some results. Very Interesting. Would you > consider dropping the test file in my public folder? > > > On Oct 3, 2008, at 5:53 PM, RJay Hansen wrote: > >> Initially I got: >> >> "Can't get text item delimiters" >> >> When I looked at your endlines handler I noticed you only had >> "text item delimiters" rather than "AppleScript's text item >> delimiters". Changing that fixed that issue, and yes, I got a nice >> new document broken up into paragraphs. >> >> I finally got the one I've been writing finished and got it to run >> w/no errors. For comparison, on the same text file (420K) it takes >> just over a minute to run, versus the don't-blink-or-you'll-miss- >> it time of Paul's effort. And Paul's script runs about 16K versus >> my 40K. >> >> Interestingly, Paul's/Mark's script seems to have got lost toward >> the end of the book, and missed(?) an underscore, so the last two >> and a half chapters are bass-ackwards as far as plain styled vs. >> italic styled, while my script didn't do that. :-/ >> >> RJay >> >> >> On Oct 3, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Mark Lively wrote: >> >>> try >>> set head to "{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\cocoartf949\ >>> \cocoasubrtf350 >>> {\\fonttbl\\f0\\fswiss\\fcharset0 Helvetica;} >>> {\\colortbl;\\red255\\green255\\blue255;} >>> \\margl1440\\margr1440\\vieww12240\\viewh15840\\viewkind1 >>> \\pard\\tx720\\tx1440\\tx2160\\tx2880\\tx3600\\tx4320\\tx5040\ >>> \tx5760\\tx6480\\tx7200\\tx7920\\tx8640\\ql\\qnatural\\pardirnatural >>> >>> \\f0\\fs24 \\cf0 " >>> set tail to "}" >>> >>> tell application "Finder" >>> activate >>> set inputFile to choose file with prompt "Choose an underscore >>> delimited plaintext file for input." >>> set inputFileName to name of inputFile >>> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "." >>> copy text item 1 of inputFileName to inputFileName >>> set AppleScript's text item delimiters to "" >>> set inputFilePath to ((container of inputFile) as alias) as text >>> end tell >>> >>> set inputFileHandle to open for access inputFile >>> set outputFileHandle to open for access file (inputFilePath & >>> inputFileName & "_Italicized.rtf") with write permission >>> write head to outputFileHandle >>> >>> set evenOddOpenCloseItalicsToggle to 0 >>> repeat >>> try >>> set currentChunk to read inputFileHandle until "_" >>> if evenOddOpenCloseItalicsToggle is 0 then >>> if currentChunk is "_" then >>> write ((ASCII character 32) & "\\i " as text) to >>> outputFileHandle as text >>> else >>> write (endlines(text 1 thru -2 of currentChunk) & (ASCII >>> character 32) & "\\i " as text) to outputFileHandle >>> end if >>> set evenOddOpenCloseItalicsToggle to 1 >>> else >>> if currentChunk is "_" then >>> write ((ASCII character 32) & "\\i0" as text) to >>> outputFileHandle >>> else >>> write (endlines(text 1 thru -2 of currentChunk) & (ASCII >>> character 32) & "\\i0" as text) to outputFileHandle >>> end if >>> set evenOddOpenCloseItalicsToggle to 0 >>> end if >>> on error e number n >>> if n is not -39 then display dialog "Error: " & (n as text) & >>> return & e >>> exit repeat >>> end try >>> end repeat >>> write tail to outputFileHandle >>> try >>> close access inputFileHandle >>> close access outputFileHandle >>> end try >>> on error e number n >>> display dialog "Error: " & (n as text) & return & e >>> end try >>> >>> on endlines(sometext) >>> set tid to text item delimiters >>> set text item delimiters to ASCII character 10 -- in 10.5 you >>> can use linefeed instead >>> set sometext to text items of sometext >>> set text item delimiters to "\\" & (ASCII character 10) >>> set sometext to sometext as text >>> set text item delimiters to return >>> set sometext to text items of sometext >>> set text item delimiters to "\\" & return >>> set sometext to sometext as text >>> set text item delimiters to tid >>> return sometext >>> end endlines