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			<string>--applescript direct
--Michael Sharpe, 20140424
--This is free software, but Copyright (c) Michael Sharpe, 2014
--and subject to the LATEX Project Public License.
--This allows replication of a commented block of text as many times as specified, substituting
--values for 'variables' in the process

property trimitems : {" ", tab, linefeed, return}

set lf to linefeed
set cr to return
set crlf to cr &amp; lf

set oldtid to text item delimiters
tell application "TeXShop" to set s to content of selection of document 1
set tmp to (paragraphs of s)
set text item delimiters to {lf}
set s to (tmp as text)
set text item delimiters to "%Repetitions="
set tmp to (text items of s)
set text item delimiters to oldtid
if not ((count of tmp) = 2) then
	display dialog "Bailing! The selection does not contain exactly one '%Repetitions='"
	return
end if
set ss to (item 2 of tmp)
set tmp2 to (paragraphs of ss)
set numrep to (item 1 of tmp2) as integer
--next get variable names
set text item delimiters to {"%Variables="}
set tmp to (text items of s)
set text item delimiters to oldtid
if not ((count of tmp) = 2) then
	display dialog "Bailing! The selection does not contain exactly one '%Variables='"
	return
end if
set ss to (item 2 of tmp)
set tmp2 to (paragraphs of ss)
set vbllst to (item 1 of tmp2) --like {nnn,0:1+1,1:3+-2}
set vbllst2 to trim(vbllst)
set vbllst3 to (text 2 thru -2 of vbllst2)
set text item delimiters to {" , ", " ,", " ,", ","}
set vbles to (text items of vbllst3) -- line {nnn,0:1+1,1:3+-2}
--display dialog "vbles=" &amp; (vbles as text)
set n to (count of vbles)
set root to (item 1 of vbles)
set vlst to {}
set vinit to {}
set vinc to {}
set valt to {}
set text item delimiters to {":", "+"}
repeat with j from 2 to n
	set x to (text items of (item j of vbles))
	if not ((count of x) = 3) then
		display dialog "Bad variable descriptor-- " &amp; item j of vbles
		set text item delimiters to oldtid
		return
	end if
	set end of vlst to (item 1 of x)
	set nnn to 0
	set hasp to 0
	if (last character of (item 3 of x) = ")") then
		set hasp to 1
		set nnn to ((text -2 of (item 3 of x)) as integer)
		set (item 3 of x) to (text 1 thru -4 of (item 3 of x))
	else
		if (first character of (item 2 of x) = "[") then set nnn to -100
	end if
	if (item 3 of x) ends with "/2" then
		set (item 3 of x) to (text 1 thru -3 of (item 3 of x))
		if hasp = 1 then
			set nnn to -nnn
		else
			set nnn to -10
		end if
	end if
	set end of valt to nnn
	if (nnn = -100) then
		set end of vinit to (text 2 thru -1 of (item 2 of x))
		set end of vinc to (text 1 thru -2 of (item 3 of x))
	else
		set end of vinit to (item 2 of x)
		set end of vinc to (item 3 of x)
	end if
	
end repeat
set text item delimiters to oldtid
set viniti to {}
set vinci to {}
set kk to (count of vinit)
repeat with j from 1 to kk
	try
		set end of viniti to ((item j of vinit) as integer)
	on error
		set end of viniti to 0
	end try
	try
		set end of vinci to ((item j of vinc) as integer)
	on error
		set end of vinci to 0
	end try
end repeat
set tmp to (paragraphs of s)
set m to (count of tmp)
set tmp2 to {}
repeat with j from 3 to m
	set t to (item j of tmp)
	if ((count of t) &gt; 1) then
		set t to (text 2 thru -1 of t)
	else
		set t to ""
	end if
	set end of tmp2 to t
end repeat
set text item delimiters to {lf}
set body to (tmp2 as text)
set text item delimiters to oldtid
set repl to {s}
set newbody to body
repeat with p from 1 to numrep
	set newbody to body
	repeat with k from 1 to kk
		set v to ""
		set alt to (item k of valt)
		if (alt = -100) then
			if (p mod 2) = 0 then
				set v to (item k of vinc)
			else
				set v to (item k of vinit)
			end if
		else
			set v to (item k of viniti)
			if (alt &lt; 0) then
				set v to (v div 2)
				set alt to -alt
			end if
			if (alt is not 10) and (alt is not 0) then
				set v to zero_pad(v, alt)
			else
				set v to (v as string)
			end if
		end if
		set newbody to switchText of newbody from (root &amp; (item k of vlst)) to v
		set item k of viniti to (((item k of viniti) as integer) + (item k of vinci))
	end repeat
	set end of repl to newbody
end repeat
set text item delimiters to lf
tell application "TeXShop" to set selection of document 1 to (repl as text)
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to oldtid

on zero_pad(value, string_length)
	set tmp_string to "000000000" &amp; (value as string)
	set padded_value to text ((count of tmp_string) - string_length + 1) thru -1 of tmp_string
	return padded_value
end zero_pad

to switchText of t from s to r
	set d to text item delimiters
	set text item delimiters to s
	set t to t's text items
	set text item delimiters to r
	tell t to set t to beginning &amp; ({""} &amp; rest)
	set text item delimiters to d
	t
end switchText

on trim(someText)
	try
		repeat until first character of someText is not in trimitems
			set someText to text 2 thru -1 of someText
		end repeat
	on error
		set someText to ""
	end try

	try
		repeat until last character of someText is not in trimitems
			set someText to text 1 thru -2 of someText
		end repeat
	on error
		set someText to ""
	end try
	return someText
end trim

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