Thanks for supplying this final piece. Trying to learn AppleScript by
reading the dictionaries is much like trying to learn a foreign language
just from reading a bilingual dictionary for that language. Why Apple
decided not to include any code samples in AppleScript dictionaries is
beyond me.
On Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 10:36:47 AM UTC-7 jj wrote:
> Greg,
>
> The BBEdit dictionary mentions that the "normalize line endings" command
> takes a text specifier as a parameter.
>
> ---
> normalize line endings v : convert any CRLF pairs and LF characters
> remaining after line-break conversion
>
> normalize line endings specifier : text to be modified
>
> → text : the modified text
> ---
>
> Your script as written gives to the "normalize line endings" command an
> implicit parameter of type application "BBEdit" which apparently is not
> automatically convertible to a text specifier.
> Try to give it the contents of your document which is a text specifier
> (something of the form: characters x thru y of ...).
>
> *normalize line endings* contents *of* *first* *document* *of* first
> window
>
> or use a tell block to specify the implicit parameter:
>
> tell first document of first window
> *normalize line endings*
> end tell
>
> HTH,
>
> Jean Jourdain
> On Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 2:09:30 PM UTC+2 Greg Raven wrote:
>
>> Actually, this isn't working for me either. This is what I have so far:
>>
>> ```
>> tell application "Safari"
>> set sourceCode to source of first document
>> end tell
>>
>> tell application "BBEdit"
>> activate
>> make new text window with properties {contents:sourceCode, source
>> language:"HTML"}
>> optimize
>> # normalize line endings
>> format mode gentle hierarchical with normalizing tag case
>> copy time of (current date) to latest
>> save text document 1 to file ("Macintosh HD:Users:greg:Desktop:tossme-" &
>> latest & ".html")
>> end tell
>> ```
>> The "normalize line endings" command is commented out because it throws
>> an error so the script does not run to completion. I tried wrapping it in
>> it's own tell block, but I'm still missing something.
>>
>> On Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 4:46:59 AM UTC-7 Greg Raven wrote:
>>
>>> Ah, so. Thank you! It never occurred to me that I needed a nested tell
>>> block.
>>>
>>> On Sunday, October 11, 2020 at 12:53:16 AM UTC-7 jj wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Greg,
>>>>
>>>> Here is a script that might do what you want
>>>>
>>>> tell application "Safari"
>>>> set vContents to source of first document
>>>> set vName to name of first document
>>>> end tell
>>>>
>>>> tell application "BBEdit"
>>>> tell first window
>>>> set vDocument to make new document at beginning with properties
>>>> {name:vName, contents:vContents}
>>>> tell vDocument
>>>> normalize line endings
>>>> format mode no reorganization with normalizing tag case
>>>> end tell
>>>> end tell
>>>> end tell
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Jean Jourdain
>>>>
>>>>
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