I use Scrivener, a Mac app for writing. It lacks an extension/plugin system and has no AppleScript support (unfortunately).
I have a Microsoft Word macro kit that will go through a piece of text and highlight weak verbs, overuse of prepositions, and other grammatical faults.
I'd like to do the following:
Highlight a block of text in Scrivener
Invoke Alfred
Magic happens
Microsoft Word opens, the text is pasted in a new doc, and the macro is run
BONUS: Ideally a new section is created in Scrivener with the highlighted text pasted back and Word is closed
Alternatively
Highlight a block of text in Scrivener
Invoke Alfred
Alfred invokes some AppleScript/something I write, does the highlighting work, and pastes the text back
I can browse through Alfred's docs to see if this is possible and how I might do it (and write the AppleScript stuff) but before I go down that path, I'm wondering if this is possible in Alfred/a good candidate for an Alfred workflow.
Is this possible with Alfred? (transforming highlighted text)
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I use Scrivener, a Mac app for writing. It lacks an extension/plugin system and has no AppleScript support (unfortunately).
I have a Microsoft Word macro kit that will go through a piece of text and highlight weak verbs, overuse of prepositions, and other grammatical faults.
I'd like to do the following:
Alternatively
I can browse through Alfred's docs to see if this is possible and how I might do it (and write the AppleScript stuff) but before I go down that path, I'm wondering if this is possible in Alfred/a good candidate for an Alfred workflow.
As you can tell, I'm rather new to Alfred :-)
I do have the Powerpack if that is significant.
Thanks very much for any advice.