Thanks Jonathan, the substitutions sort of does what I want, except I can't get 
it to press enter for me and send the tweet.
Jonathan Mosen
Mosen Consulting
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On 26/11/2013, at 3:44 pm, Jonathan C. Cohn <[email protected]> wrote:

> I looked at the Night Owl program and it does not accept Apple Events.  For 
> the dictionary idea if you go to keyboard system preferences there is an area 
> to set up keyboard expansion. I understand this also syncs with the iPhone 
> too. Quite a few folks like Keyboard Maestro which interacts directly with 
> the Apple's accessability API's to add task and text expansion.
> 
> I don't know any blind folks that currently use non-Apple keyboard expansion 
> utilities at the moment.
> 
> Adam Angst did write up how he automated publishing e-books to PDF and ePUB 
> using a keyboard macro tool. You should be able to find that article in the 
> TIDBITS.com  archive.
> Best wishes,
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 25, 2013, at 5:54 PM, Jonathan Mosen wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Ricardo, that’s an interesting idea. Do you know if there’s a way of 
>> embedding a press of the return key in a keyboard dictionary entry?
>> Jonathan Mosen
>> Mosen Consulting
>> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
>> http://Mosen.org
>> 
>> On 26/11/2013, at 10:28 am, Ricardo Walker <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> How about setting up a dictionary shortcut?  Like for example, many people 
>>> use this feature on there iPhone when texting.  You would write I don’t 
>>> know., and it would expand out to I don’t know.  You could use 2 symbols 
>>> like gl and would expand to your hash tag.  I know its not very elegant, 
>>> but, I think it would work for you.
>>> 
>>> hth
>>> 
>>> Ricardo Walker
>>> [email protected]
>>> Twitter:@apple2thecore
>>> www.appletothecore.info
>>> 
>>> On Nov 25, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Jonathan Mosen <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi everyone, I’d be very grateful for any advice from people with much 
>>>> more knowledge of Automater and Apple Script than I have.
>>>> I have what I think is quite a simple task but I’m not sure about the best 
>>>> tool or method for achieving it.
>>>> What I want to do is set up a key in VO so that when in the edit field for 
>>>> typing a tweet in Night Owl/YoruFukurou, I can press a single key that 
>>>> sends a specific string, then presses Return to send the tweet. I want to 
>>>> do this to send a hashtag I use regularly so the string is always the same.
>>>> The idea is that I would write my tweet, then include this hashtag at the 
>>>> end by pressing this single key.
>>>> I’m not sure if using Apple Script or Automater is the best way of getting 
>>>> this done, and what the process would be for either. I know how to use the 
>>>> commander to assign either a workflow or a script to a key, but actually 
>>>> getting the task automated is where I’d appreciate the advice.
>>>> If anyone can provide some advice and examples, I’d really appreciate it, 
>>>> thanks.
>>>> Jonathan Mosen
>>>> Mosen Consulting
>>>> Blindness technology eBooks, tutorials and training
>>>> http://Mosen.org
>>>> 
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