Hello Chris,

>The following is the start of one of my scripts for Quark v3.32. It will give
>you an idea of how to get the selection and some of the things you can do with
>them.

Thanks, it looks from your example that I had the right AppleScript
commands but just couldn't get the syntax correct. It has puzzled me since
I first ever started scripting XPress with Frontier just how to work with a
selection, I never managed to work it out.

>You can do quite a bit with your selection directly in Quark but, if you want
>to do a lot of reformatting, you have to save the selection as "TEXT" (so the
>Xpress tags are preserved) to a file. Then you do your changes to the file,
>being sure not to screw up the existing tags, a ... challenging ... aspect of
>the operation, before re-importing it into Quark.Good luck.

I've done a lot of work with the XPress tag format, mainly converting
tagged database data into something our clients can flow into XPress
templates.

Regards Alan.

| At work: <mailto:alan@asset-graphics.com> |
| At play: <mailto:alan@damocles.demon.co.uk> |



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