it's a shame about voodoopad

[Graham Wakefield <wakefield@...>]

http://flyingmeat.com/voodoopad/docs/scripting.html

Scripting in VoodooPad

There are two ways to script VoodooPad.  There's the traditional  
approach with AppleScript, or you can use two other great programming  
languages- Python and Lua.  If you aren't really familiar with either  
of these languages, we'd prefer you to pick Python*.  Lua is great,  
but Python has a lot more momentum behind it as well as a lot more  
documentation.

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* In a future release of VoodooPad (think something along the lines of  
a hypothetical VoodooPad 6), we'll be taking out the Lua support.   
You'll be able to download a plugin to continue to use your legacy  
scripts in Lua, but we'll no longer officially support it.  So now is  
a good time to look and see what it would take to move your scripts to  
Python.