tvanyo

Late to the party, but I think I found a way to use dynamic placeholders and get some basic rich text capability without a RTF file or any AppleScriptObjC kung-foo. For example, I like to add a date stamp if I reply to email inline. By typing \\ctv, I get [TV 03 Apr 19] or whatever the date is automagically. Achieved it with the flow in the workflow below. I've added a screen shot of what the "Copy to clipboard" includes in it. This works in Pages and this forum. So not thoroughly vetted, but something to work with. The initial problem seemed to be the copy from clipboard would "overwrite" the invisible element initially sent with the key combo, in my case the bold. Adding the space after the key combo seems to make the result more consistent. It may not line up the way you want, but the tradeoff is something working consistently. Other observations are that even with the {cursor} placeholder giving me a space after the closing bracket, I still need to hit the spacebar before I can manually turn off the bold by hitting the key combo again. This isn't a problem in practice because I'm making a comment and will enter some text anyway (which will also be bolded). I tried adding the key combo again after the "Copy to clipboard", but that really did nothing except make things function inconsistently again. If it helps you, great. If it doesn't, no harm.

Super! Wasn't looking forward to retyping 16 snippets. Thanks for the workflow.