sentences as items

Toma Tasovac ttasovac at princeton.edu
Fri Mar 7 14:17:01 EST 2003


gochya.  thanks a lot!
T.

On Friday, March 7, 2003, at 06:39  PM, Chris Sheffield wrote:

> You can do it one of two ways.  I am using .rtf files
> and reading them in at run-time so that I have styled
> text.  What I first did was use the command "set the
> clipboardData["text"] to NumToChar(160)" in the Rev
> Message Box.  Then I opened my text editor and pasted
> where necessary.  It worked well.  But then I moved my
> file to the Mac.  Because it's a higher ASCII
> character, it didn't display right on the Mac.  So
> what I ended up doing was putting some other lower
> ASCII character like "~" (or anything that's not very
> likely) in my files instead of the actual delimiter
> character.  Then in my code I replaced that character
> with NumToChar(160) on Windows and NumToChar(202) on
> Mac after reading in the file.  I hope that all makes
> sense.
>
> Chris Sheffield
>
> --- Toma Tasovac <ttasovac at princeton.edu> wrote:
>> Chris, let me abuse your kindness one last time.
>> Your solution is
>> exactly what I need, but what's still not clear to
>> me is the very first
>> step.  Once I know how to insert the special
>> character, it will be
>> pretty trivial to to a search and replace in BBEdit
>> and make sure that
>> all sentences end with a punctuation sign + special
>> character.  But how
>> do I insert that special character in a text editor
>> in the first place?
>>   I know that this is something terribly obvious and
>> banal, but please
>> indulge my ignorance!
>>
>> Many thanks for your help.
>>
>> Toma
>>
>>
>>
>
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