Back in 2017, I wrote a post about a script that would align outline text, which would insert spacers into a formatted outline document to make it consistently spaced. This script has been in use for a few years by a few readers of this blog, and it generally works pretty well, but earlier this week I got a question about it. If a document is otherwise nicely formatted, and you only want to align a section of the document, running the script on an entire document is probably a bad idea, because there is always the possibility of it changing something that already looks pretty good. The question, then, was asking if it was possible to modify this script to run on a portion of the document, instead of the whole document.
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