Re: Globally apply char tags to text

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ezra,

We do this regularly with FrameScript.  It works great.

We also do paragraph tagging based on contained textual content.  The content
may be something that appears naturally in the document or nonsense-text that
was inserted specifically for this purpose as a crude form of tagging in a
text editor or word processor (very easy to do in some cases with
find/replace) -- then FrameScript can delete the nonsense text for you.

Example:  In a word processor find em dash and replace with two tags with a
hard return between them; for a lead in paragraph situation...

   Horse - A beautiful animal with a really serious bite.

Yields (in the word processor):

   HorseXXX
   YYYA beautiful animal with a really serious bite.

FrameScript can para-tag thousands of these into lead-in paragraphs in a
matter of seconds.  

As long as you have something in your text to grab onto, it can do the job.

Jay Smith


Ezra Steinberg wrote:
> 
> I'm looking for a way to globally apply a specific character tag
> to every occurrence of a particular word in a book.
> 
> I tried applying the target character format to the first occurrence
> of the target word in the book, then using Edit->Copy Special->Character Format
> to copy the format to the Clipboard. Then I went ahead and started pasting
> from the Clipboard using Find/Replace and "By Pasting". That applies
> the character tag all right, but it also applies all the character
> attributes of the specific instance that I selected when I did
> Edit->Copy Special->Character Format. Since the character tag I'm
> applying has most of its attributes set to "As Is", this is not the
> behavior I'm looking for.
> 
> (For example, I used Copy Special on a word already tagged with the target
>  character format that just happened to be 14pt Bold, but the character tag
>  itself has font size and weight set to "As Is". When I Find/Replace By Pasting
>  to body text that is 10pt Plain, the text does indeed get tagged with the
>  character tag but also gets converted to 14pt Bold.)
> 
> On the other hand, if I use Find/Replace with To Character Format, I can set
> the attributes I don't want changed to As Is so I change only the attributes
> I want changed. However, the words to which I apply these changes don't get
> tagged with any sort of character tag (which is no surprise, since the dialog
> box that pops up when you select To Character Format doesn't let you select a
> character format).
> 
> Is there a way in the standard FM interface to do what I'm trying to do?
> 
> Ezra
> 
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> Ezra Steinberg                          Resonate, Inc.
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