Pages '09 [4.3] - superscript first word of every line up to space chr

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#1

Need to superscript each character from beginning of line up to the first space character. Every single line. File can contain up to 24k lines.

I’m running Mavericks and Pages 09 [4.3]

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Operating System: Mac OS X (10.8)

#2

Well this has just taken two and a quarter hours to get through a 24033-line document on my Mavericks machine. :lol: It’s not guaranteed accurate if you have any styles set.

tell application "Pages"
	activate
	tell body text of document 1
		set lineOffsets to character offset of paragraphs
		set paras to paragraphs
	end tell
end tell

set astid to AppleScript's text item delimiters
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to space
considering case
	repeat with i from 1 to (count paras)
		set p to item i of my paras
		if (p contains " ") then
			set e to (count text item 1 of p)
			set b to item i of my lineOffsets
			tell application "Pages" to set superscript of characters b thru (b + e - 1) of body text of front document to true
		end if
	end repeat
end considering
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to astid
#3

Perfect! Works great. (Ran against a file with no styles set, all “Normal” 12pt, helvetica) -

Thank you very, very, much.