Hyphen Madness

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From: Jay Fraser
Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 22:06

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I have to do a bunch of boring and repetative things to surnames. The surnames are always the first thing in a paragraph, so I can say things like:

      set applied character style of word 1 of paragraph myCounter to "Surname"




Usually my scripts work well, but sometimes I run into a hyphenated name which gums everything up.

I don't suppose there's an easy way to tell AppleScript to treat hyphens like any other character?

If not, I'll have to re-write a bunch of scripts & slow them down either further ... or just close my eyes and ignore the errors.

Jay

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