How Best to Style Output Text

[okn]

Often I get some correct output from macros as here (from an AppleScript), but how to convert this text output to another style/ size?

The AppleScript writes very fast the text output (here the date) to a clipboard (clipboard 7).

If it could write it to a variable instead, which then can be used and styled?

If this makes sense?

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with best regards, Omar KN, Sweden

[ccstone]

Hey Omar,

Look at the pop-up menu that says "save results to clipboard" – you'll find an option to save to variable.

Your AppleScript is doing the job of pasting, so there's no way to alter the style of the text – unless of course you want to learn how to manipulate attributed strings with AppleScriptObjC.

Here'e how to do this job with Keyboard Maestro:

Insert Current Date.kmmacros (1.5 KB)

To change the style of the text you can get sneaky...

Insert Current Date.kmmacros (2.4 KB)

• Change the actual font of the text in the paste action.
• Note that the actions above are different – one pastes plain text, and one pastes styled-text.
• You could also save the date token to the clipboard and manipulate that before pasting it.

-Chris

[okn]

Here is my very simple but not working macro:

Insert Date Time into you frontmost app.kmmacros (3.9 KB)

[okn]

This is even simpler, but it works!

Thank you.

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with best regards, Omar KN, Sweden