This looks slick, but it doesn't run for me. I get an error on save, and 
the (path to desktop as string) seems not to resolve to anything.

On Monday, October 12, 2020 at 6:26:32 AM UTC-7 John R M. Delacour wrote:

>
>
> On 12 Oct 2020, at 13:30, Greg Raven <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
>
> Here’s another way to do it:
>
> *tell* *application* "Safari" *to* *set* _src *to* source *of* *front* 
> *document*
> *tell* *application* "BBEdit"
> *activate*
> *set* _doc *to* *make* *document* with properties {*text*:_src, linebreaks
> :*Unix*}
> *tell* _doc
> *format* mode *gentle hierarchical* *with* normalizing tag case
> *set* _t *to* time *of* (*current date*)
> *set* _f *to* (*path to* *desktop* as *string*) & _t & ".html"
> *save* to *file* _f
> *end* *tell*
> *end* *tell*
>
>

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