Scripting stylized text

[TerenceM]

Since I haven't seen this trick posted before, I'll venture from my lurking and make a post.

I've been searching and agonizing for a way to format text in a script without resorting to a plugin, and I finally came up with a trick to do so. The trick is to copy and paste into a formatting field that has a space with the desired formatting. The formatting field is reset at the beginning of the script by copy/paste from yet another formatting field that has a master copy of the formatted space. The final important trick: set the default style/color of the formatting fields to something you'll never use (mine are in puse/outline) so that the formatted space is in a different style/color than the default.

Unfortunately this only works if you can accept the insertion of a formatted space, but it works. If anybody's come up with something better, I'd love to hear it (I'd prefer not to have the space myself).

See Attached.

-Terence

Addendum:

I've updated the script according to my reply below.