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Thanks Dave,<o:p></o:p>

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I would like to get at the style because I am exporting stories as XML (kind of) and would like replace bold and italic text with <emphasis> tags, etc.<o:p></o:p>

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To answer the question I can see forming in your head (!), I am using applescript to get the contents of the text frames, because I only need to export certain parts of the page, and no matter what I do, I cannot get 'export from selected' to work through applescript. I can tick the box in the gui, and export from a selected element fine, but when automating this with applescript, the setting appears to be set to true, but the entire page always gets exported. I gave up months ago!<o:p></o:p>

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So I get my users to select the (for example) three boxes that make up the story (headline, intro, text) and run a script which reads the xml tags applied, gets the contents of the text frames and makes up an xml file for the article, writing this out to a file server.<o:p></o:p>

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It all works quite nicely, but if I could get the styling, and convert to xml tags, that would be the icing on the cake!<o:p></o:p>

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James<o:p></o:p>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Saunders [mailto:daves@pdsassoc.com]
Sent: 07 October 2003 17:23
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Subject: re: [AS] Get contents of text frame - with style?

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  [AS] Get contents of text frame - with style?.

Why do you want to get it? Why not just get references to it and work on it in situ?

I did write one script where I got the text of paragraphs so I could index them in AppleScript, manipulate them a bit (lose noise words) and sort them along with their indexes, so that could then rearrange the original paragraphs using the reordered indexes.

Generally, though, if I want to operate on the text of a story, I do it in situ.

Dave <o:p></o:p>

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