Finding specific text style in RTF data, then remove all styles

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Hi,

I am still fiddling with my flashcards.

I want to be able to enter a string and highlight certain parts of it in, e.g. by using a bold text style on these parts:

“This is not important, but this is.”

By bold text will then be manipulated further.

As I can see, KM has no macro or action to determine the text style of a string or part of it.

Therefore, I copy the styled text to the clipboard and convert the whole text including the RTF-metadata to sth. more readable, by using the output of:

osascript -e ‘the clipboard as «class RTF »’ |
perl -ne ‘print chr foreach unpack(“C*”,pack(“H*”,substr($_,11,-3)))’

(idea by a nice fellow in this thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2545289/getting-rtf-data-out-of-mac-os-x-pasteboard-clipboard)

With a regex that finds where bold text begins or ends, if any, I can then save the highlighted text an proceed as I wish with it.

However, I have to clean all the text then of all other RTF metadata, which is now in clear text. Thus copying the styled text to a plain text clipboard would not work.

Do I really have to search and replace all possible RTF data I am not interested in? Am I on the right track? Thanks for any input!

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Hi Ben

Not sure how to do it, but could Markdown be used?

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Jimmy, a kind of markdown or markup would be my third best option. My goal is to have a human readable text with as few (distracting) meta information as possible.

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This applescript seems to work for TextEdit at least (a Google find).

tell application "TextEdit"
     set boldText to attribute runs of text of document 1 whose font contains "Bold"
end tell
return boldText

eg.
some bold text is here -> {“is here”}

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