Thank you, Anne! Once again, you've saved the day. I missed the second X, and
now it works just as Barry said. I must say I'm moving into uncharted
territory today. I've never heard of the service you talk about below, but
sounds handy, I'll look into that next. :)
Thanks, Barry, Alex, and Anne for the help. I wouldn't ever have sorted this
out without all of you.
Cheers,
Donna
> On Mar 1, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Anne Robertson <a...@anarchie.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Hello Donna,
>
> VO doesn’t say anything when yu use these commands, but the second one is
> Ctrl-x-x not just one x.
>
> Have you activated and set a short cut for the service New TextEdit window
> containing selection? It’s a quick way to verify that you’ve selected what
> you wanted to select.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anne
>
>
>> On 1 Mar 2015, at 19:42, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hmm. Well, this seems really cool, but I think you've gone beyond my depth.
>> It looks like I've done everything as you describe, but no joy. When I
>> press Ctrl-Space, VO is silent, again silent when I press Ctrl-X. I then
>> try pressing CMD-c to copy, and when I press CMD-V to paste the presumably
>> selected text, I'm asked whether I want to convert the document to RTFDB.
>> Have no idea either where that's coming from, or where to begin to figure
>> out what's wrong. thanks for the help, Barry, glad it's working for some of
>> you at least. :)
>> Cheers,
>> Donna
>>> On Mar 1, 2015, at 12:07 PM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hey Donna,
>>>
>>> First you will need to go to the format menu and choose make plain text.
>>> That will open another copy in text format. Then you should find the UTF8
>>> plain text incoding option in the save dialog. You will allso want to make
>>> sure to uncheck the use .txt box.
>>>
>>> I use emacs and many people use vi, but I don’t recommend you try that if
>>> you aren’t familiar with them.
>>>
>>> On Mar 1, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Barry,
>>>
>>> OK, so I've got the folder in the right library, but when I try to save
>>> from text Edit, UTF8 does not show up as an option.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Donna
>>>
>>> P.S. If you didn't use Text Edit to create this file, what would you use?
>>>> On Mar 1, 2015, at 11:22 AM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Donna,
>>>>
>>>> You would access ~/Library by going to your home folder with
>>>> command-shift-h and go menu. In Yosemite and Mavericks, you can also make
>>>> it visible by checking the show library folder in view options.
>>>> ~/Library is a Unix path and ~ means everything else after it is in your
>>>> home folder. You could put this in /Library if you want all other users
>>>> on your machine to access it, but you would need to be an administrator to
>>>> do this and I don’t think it’s necessary to put it there.
>>>>
>>>> If you use textedit to save it, make sure it is in UTF8 text format.
>>>> Good luck.
>>>>
>>>> On Mar 1, 2015, at 8:31 AM, Donna Goodin <doniado...@me.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Bary,
>>>>
>>>> This looks really interesting, but I have a couple of questions.
>>>>
>>>> You said ~/library. I assume that's the folder that I access by going to
>>>> Macintosh HD, opening it, and going to library?
>>>>
>>>> Second, I was able to create the folder there called keybindings, but when
>>>> I tried to save the file from text Edit, I was told I don't have
>>>> permission to save a file with that filename. What's up with that?
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Donna
>>>>> On Feb 28, 2015, at 9:50 AM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I can tell you how you can select text across page boundaries in Pages.
>>>>> I explained this in an earlier post. So, I don’t know if you saw it and
>>>>> are not interested, or if you didn’t see it, so I will post it again.
>>>>> What you will be able to do is:
>>>>> 1. Move the insertion to a point on a page and press control-space to
>>>>> set a mark.
>>>>> 2. Move the insertion point to another point either on the same page or
>>>>> a different page.
>>>>> 3. Press control-x control-x to select text from the mark to the cursor.
>>>>>
>>>>> You have to do some things to set that up.
>>>>> 1. Create a folder in ~/Library called KeyBindings.
>>>>> 2. Copy the following into a text file and save it to the KeyBindings
>>>>> folder as DefaultKeyBinding.dict.
>>>>> {
>>>>> "^y" = "yankAndSelect:"; //control-y
>>>>> "^\@" = "setMark:"; //control-@
>>>>> "^w" = "deleteToMark:"; //control-w
>>>>> "^x" = { //control-x control-x
>>>>> "^x" = "selectToMark:";
>>>>> };
>>>>> "^ " = "setMark:"; //control-space
>>>>> "~f" = "moveWordForward:"; //option-f
>>>>> "~b" = "moveWordBackward:"; //option-b
>>>>> }
>>>>>
>>>>> This is mine at it has some other bindings that you may not be interested
>>>>> in, but you don’t need to worry about them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now, restart the app if need be it it should work.
>>>>> You will also have this functionality in most other text apps on your
>>>>> system including mail and Textedit.
>>>>>
>>>>> Note that this will allso copy the page break. If you are not wanting to
>>>>> do that, there is a way around that too, but I will only go in to that if
>>>>> I know you are interested.
>>>>> Hope you find this helpful.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Feb 28, 2015, at 3:38 AM, Jürgen Fleger <apple-engl...@fleger.net>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> since Yosemite - at least am I aware of it since then - it’s not possible
>>>>> to highlight text that contains more then one page of text.
>>>>> I tried to highlight more then one page in Pages and Textedit pressing on
>>>>> top of the page CMD + a or Shift + End. If I try to highlight text
>>>>> manually using Shift + arrow down VO anounces something like „not
>>>>> highlighted“ as soon as I reach the boarder of the first page.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, is anyone aware of this issue and knows a work around?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks and all the best
>>>>> Jürgen
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