On Oct 28, 2012, at 7:51 AM, dweinberger wrote:
> Sure. This is what recording the events generates:
>
> tell application "BBEdit"
> activate
> open {file "Macintosh
> HD:Users:weinbergerd:Dropbox:temp:convertedMarkdown.html"} with LF translation
> end tell
Thanks. I'm no AppleScript expert but I think you're right on your assumption
that the export feature is not (yet) recordable. That said, I'll bet it's in
the BBEdit AS dictionary (open ScriptEditor and select File->Open Dictionary,
and then select BBEdit from the resulting menu to find the following):
export v : Export an object
export [specifier] : object to export
[to alias] : where to save the exported data
which, as AS would be something like this:
tell application "BBEdit"
activate
set fileAsMD to document 1 of window 1
set fileAsHTML to "Macintosh
HD:Users:weinbergerd:Dropbox:temp:convertedMarkdown.html" as alias
export fileAsMD to fileAsHTML
end tell
To make this portable/flexible you need to set some other variables or
parameters. The name property of the document object doesn't seem to expose the
extension so not sure how to handle that, otherwise the script could be as easy
as the one shown below. Maybe someone with more AppleScript experience could
chime in.
(NB: The following script WILL NOT WORK but should provide you with ideas on
how to make it work)
tell application "BBEdit"
activate
set fileAsMD to document 1 of window 1
set myFileName to the name of fileAsMD
set myFileName to the basename of myFileName
set fileAsHTML to "Macintosh HD:Users:weinbergerd:Dropbox:temp:" &
myFileName & ".html" as alias
export fileAsMD to fileAsHTML
end tell
And speaking of example scripts... Have you searched for scripts that maybe
already do what you're trying to do and then modify them? Sometimes that's the
shortest distance between two points.
My 2¢
Ted
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