Macros in Pages

One of the features I sorely miss from MS Word is Macros.
Is there any way to write a macro or something similar in pages?
Thank you
jac

You can use Applescript: http://pagesfaq.blogspot.com/2008/01/how-do-i-create-macros-in-pages.html

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http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/word/word_macros.htm
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Using pbrisbin's guide as a base (assume the same configuration) and supposing I have new mail in both accounts, I'd like a status line that mimic's something like this:
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I checked that. To make sure, I also use this:
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hi everybody.
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I have a macro in my .muttrc
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Here is my .muttrc file. I did notice that I had to comment out the set trash statement. I had played with Debian before coming back to Arch..
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Further clarification:
The issue is with MSI based application distribution. It seems that MSI
based app distributions do not read/accept the SOURCE_PATH macro setting
when gathering the Common->Sources Package Source List...
Effectively the same method for distributing a snapshot based app works
fine i.e. the Distrubitors gatherer process accepts the SOURCE_PATH macro
setting from the snapshot based app as the SOURCE_PATH variable for the
distribution and modifies its value accordingly.
We are specifying SOURCE_PATH in the Common->Macros property page on both
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macro in the Distribution Options->Application Files Source column,
whereas the MSI based app references the macro in the Common->Sources
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(Another approach may be to allow the SOURCE_PATH variable to be set upon
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on a specific distribution, only the distributor)
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> I'm struggling to understand how to best specify and use SOURCE_PATH when
> distributing apps from a single distributor to subscribers that have a
> different volume and folder structure... (legacy servers)
>
> The apps are predominantly MSI, so we need to bear in mind that the
> distribution just hoovers up everything under the path specified in
> Common->Sources folder.
>
> Ideally i'd like to set the SOURCE_PATH on the individual app object and
> then use some 'variablisation' (!?!) on the subscribers to sort the paths
> out. However, I can only get the distributor to gather if the SOURCE_PATH
> variable is set at the TED policy within the service location package that
> is specified on the container above the distributor object... (If I don't,
> I just get an error in the TED.LOG:
>
> ' the source path %SOURCE_PATH% is invalid. Make sure the "%SO" variable
> value is defined in the Tiered Electronic Distribution policy, and that the
> policy is associated with the Distributor objects parent container.'
>
> This means I have to set the SOURCE_PATH in that policy for the Distributor
> and then specidy specific SOURCE_PATH variables on each subscriber
> object... The golden app objects then reference this 'global variable'
> with an appended path in the common sources e.g. %SOURCE_PATH%\acrobat
>
> This works... however my concern is having to specify a single SOURCE_PATH
> variable that is at the 'root' of all the applications.... If someone gets
> trigger happy with an app distribution, they could inadvertently specify
> just %SOURCE_PATH% and end up hoovering up all files and folders in that
> structure..... I'm sure this would probably kill most of the subscribers
> and wan links....!
>
> There must be a better way?! Any suggestions welcome!
> Many thanks
>
> David
> BTW ZFS/ZFD 6.5SP2!

[solved] mutt with tiling window managers = bad = how to improve?

Hi guys
I want to use mutt as my mail client. I've tested several others, but none fits me better. It has to be a cli application, because that's just the way I want it to be.
The only thing I don't like about mutt is its inability to handle resizing terminals. This is something which happens all the time with tiling window managers. Let me demonstrate with screenshots.
mutt as it's supposed to look http://www.unstucc.de/myspace/mutt-normal.png
mutt how it looks after the screen got resized. http://www.unstucc.de/myspace/mutt-resized.png
Hitting Ctrl+l rerenders mutt's interface, but this is really going on my nerves.
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Last edited by Army (2011-03-31 23:55:27)

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set certificate_file = "~/.mutt/certificates"
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Last edited by Army (2011-03-31 23:05:13)

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