These are my very early attempts at writing scripts for Journler 2.5 to convert the selected text into BBCode markup - they basically wrap the selection with the desired code bits. To try them out simply copy the code below into your AppleScript editor and run it. If you like these and see improvements that can be made, or even better, if you have improved them yourself, I would appreciate you sharing the work so I can post it here for everyone else to see and use.

Note that these scripts have been updated for Journler 2.5. If you wan the scripts for Journler 2.0 visit this page.

[url] Url Wrapper
[code] Code Wrapper

[url] Url Wrapper Δ

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CREATE BBCODE URL WRAPPER FOR SELECTED TEXT
WRITTEN FOR JOURNLER 2.5 - http://journler.com/
CREATED BY JONATHAN BEEBE - www.beebeography.com
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Version: 02 Created: 04 April, 2007 @ 7:27 AM
The following code will:
get the selection from Journaler by copying it to the clipboard
add the [url= ???] and [/url] tags to the selection
the text is broken apart at each space
the first text item is the URL
all remaning text items are the visible text
The new text string is copied to the clipboard
the Journler selection is replace by pasting the altered text from the clipboard

Example Journaler usage:
Write the URL in the entry as follows:
http://www.my_url.com This is the Visible Text
Output is:
[url=http://www.my_url.com]This is the Visible Text[/url]


To use this script you need to Enable Access for assistive devices by
going to the System Preferences —> Universal Access pane and checking the
“Enable Access for assistive devices” box.
In Journler select the text that should be wrapped by the [url=…]…[/url]
tags and then run the script.
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tell application "Journler"
activate

 set theEntry to selected entries
 if ((count of theEntry) = 1) then
 tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using command down
 set theSelection to the clipboard
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "

set theURL to text item 1 of theSelection
 set theVisibleText to (text items 2 thru -1 of theSelection) as string

 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""

set theNewText to ("[url=" & theURL & "]" & theVisibleText & "[/url]") as string

 set the clipboard to theNewText

 activate
 tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down
 end if
 return
end tell



[code] Code Wrapper Δ

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CREATE BBCODE CODE WRAPPER FOR SELECTED TEXT
CREATED BY JONATHAN BEEBE - www.beebeography.com
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Version: 01 Created: 18 December, 2006 @ 10:11 AM
The following code will:
get the selection from Journaler
add the [code] and [/code] tags to the selection
replace the selection with the new text

To use this script select the text that should be wrapped
and then run the script.
*******************************************************************************)

tell application "Journler"
activate

 set theEntry to selected entries
 if ((count of theEntry) = 1) then
 tell application "System Events" to keystroke "c" using command down
 set theSelection to the clipboard
 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to " "

set theURL to text item 1 of theSelection
 set theVisibleText to (text items 2 thru -1 of theSelection) as string

 set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""

set theNewText to ("[code]" & theVisibleText & "[/code]") as string

 set the clipboard to theNewText

 activate
 tell application "System Events" to keystroke "v" using command down
 end if
 return
end tell