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Hi:

I'm building a script that creates ad templates and includes our slug line at the bottom. Part of the slug info is feed from Filemaker Pro so it enters my script as strings.

For example, the variables adNumber and jobNumber are strings imported from Filemaker and are suppose to show up bold in our slug line:

      tell text frame 1





      set properties of text frame preferences to {vertical justification:top}





      set contents to "Ad No.: " & adNumber & " Job No.: " & jobNumber & (ASCII
      character 13) & " "





      set properties of paragraph 1 to {justification:center, point size:9,
      leading:11, applied font:"Helvetica", font style:"Medium"}





      set font style of word 3 of paragraph 1 to "Bold"





      set font style of word 6 of paragraph 1 to "Bold"




That works great until the variable has more than a single word. So then I tried character counting, e.g.:

      set contents of paragraph 3 to "Description: " & ad_info & (ASCII character
      13) & " "





      set properties of paragraph 3 to {justification:center, point size:9,
      leading:11, applied font:"Helvetica", font style:"Medium"}





      set tempNum to number of characters in ad_info





      set counter to 14





      repeat (tempNum) times





      set font style of character counter of paragraph 3 to "Bold"





      set counter to counter + 1





      end repeat




This works fine, but it's a dog when I'm creating dozens of templates at once.

In my old Quark script, I used to do this:

      make new text at end of text box 1 of spread 1 of document 1 with properties
      {contents:" Copywriter: ", font:"Helvetica"}





      make new text at end of text box 1 of spread 1 of document 1 with properties
      {contents:copywriter, font:"B Helvetica Bold"}




Any idea how I can keep adding to a text stream but changing the text properties when they're all on the same line?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

--jon