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From: John Darnell
Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:18

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I am essentially importing text from a file, and the text must be formatted on the fly. For example I will have a line that looks like this:

Ole is a [BOLD]great[UNBOLD] script teacher!

I'm looking for a way to make great look bolded.

I'm trying to figure out how to make this work. So far I have tried working with insertion points but for some reason they don't work.

My code looks like this

set myframe to make text frame with properties{assume appropriate properties}

set MyIP to insertion point -1 of myframe

When I ran this, AS told me that it couldn't make one type into another, or words to that effect.

Is it possible/practical to apply a character style, one character at a time? This solution might work.

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