Reply to note from "Jon P" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> ("xywrite4") Sat, 11 Feb 2023 02:49:30 +0000 (UTC) > The problem is the clipped XY text also shows carriage returns > as eighth-notes, which I then have to delete This is easily addressed by converting Windows newlines (CrLf) to Unix newlines (Lf), usually done in *nix with "dos2unix filename". Applescript can do it, too (or so Google tells me). -- Carl Distefano cld@xxxxxxxxxx