Hi Jim, There's an easier solution for what you want to do, which is simply to save the spacing, alignment, and fonts that you want to use in TextEdit as a style file, and select that style when you open TextEdit. I think you could even make it the default, but I don't do that, and having multiple style options lets me select the one that I want for each occasion. Using the Mail Archive secondary archive address and typing "TextEdit style" into the search box, then pressing return, immediately brought up the post pasted in below: <begin quote> Re: Double-Spacing and changing font with TextEdit
Hi Brianna, Tim, Marlaina, and Others, I wanted to add a suggestion that will make it easier for you to use TextEdit: once you have configured the spacing and fonts to your satisfaction, save these settings as a style file under a name of your choice. Then, when you want to create a Rich Text document with double spacing and a specific font, all you need to do is navigate to the ruler, select that style from the first pop up button, and start typing. I'll paste in old instructions for saving to a style file to TextEdit when working in Rich Text Mode, which I think are still applicable: 1. Interact with the "Styles" pop up button in the ruler and select "Other". 2. Then in the dialog window that appears, press the "Add to favorites" button and supply a name for the style. You can check the boxes for "Include the ruler as part of the style" and "include the font as part of the style". 3. To use one of your saved style files when you open a new TextEdit window, first ensure that your window is set to rich text format (you can switch to this from the "View" menu, or use the Command+Shift+T shortcut), then choose the template from the pop up "Styles" button in the ruler. 4. This will automatically set your page to the line spacing, font type, and alignment options that you set up for this style. Tim's web pages have always been my favorite place to point out to new Mac users. They're laid out the way I would want to lean VoiceOver. HTH. Cheers, Esther <end quote> Cheers, Esther On Jul 12, 2011, at 06:56, Jim Fettgather wrote: > Hi, it really is not too difficult to interact with the ruler in Text > Edit to set the line spacing to double space in a document. > > However, I wonder if it would be possible to write an apple script to > accomplish the task with a keystroke? > > Thanks for any thoughts. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
