sorting html text with arrays

[Mark Swindell]

I'm using the following script to create a glossary/word list of all words appearing in a songbook I'm making in Apple's Pages word processor (over 2,000 unique words).   (Thanks to Phil Davis for his help with arrays.)  

What I am wondering is if the formatted text can be retained in a case like this, and how.  My attempts so far have failed, as the htmlText tags are included in the sort... not what I want.)  I'd like to be able to paste in from the word processor and do the sort while maintaining formatting (bold, font, font size), and then be able to take that result and copy and paste it back into the word processor.

Am I asking too much?

Thanks
Mark

on mouseUp
   repeat for each word tWord in tStripEm
        add 1 to aWordCounts[tWord]
   end repeat
   put the keys of aWordCounts into tList
   sort lines of tList
   put tList into field "sorted3"
end mouseUp