Subject: Re: FmtMark
From: Ron Ross (ronross@colba.net)
Date: Thu May 03 2001 - 09:18:38 CDT
Martin Sevior <msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au> writes:
> On Thu, 3 May 2001, Chris Winne wrote:
>
> >
> > At Thu, 26 Apr 2001 05:36:17 -0700, Paul Rohr wrote:
> >
> > > people wanted a way to preserve certain formatting information
> >
> > Perhaps there could be a way to "capture" the FmtMark state, and paste it
> > to another location. I am thinking of my 12-year-old daughter's (who, by
> > the way, also love "The Ant") of, when typing up questions for school (in
> > *bold* and particular indent), then goes back and fills in the answer notBold,
> > and with a different indent. This requires her (unless there is a feature
> > we are missing) to manually change the font/indent on each answer, as the
> > formatting defaults to that of the question. If one could just paste in
> > the proper set of formatting codes before the "answer", it would be so
> > convenient.
> >
>
> Wow! A Normal Person :-) Abi explicitly preserves the formating of the
> text you cut and paste. When you paste your text you always have same
> format as what you cut. This is normally what people want.
It would eventually be cool for AW to provide a format-less paste. Word
has this, though you have to dig it out from the menu that pops up with
"File->Paste Special". WordPerfect has a right-click menu option "Paste
without Font/Attributes". I find that I use this constantly. If you've
already set the style for the current text, you don't want it mucked up
with the formating that comes with a paste, especially since there might
even be more or less "invisible" formating, style, metadata attached to
the pasted text.
>
> The feature you want I think is "styles". We're working on that now. That
> way you can fill in all the answers you want, define a style for the
> answer (including indent, boldness etc.) then select the region you want
> to change (greying) and apply the style. All text in the range will then
> match your requested style.
AbiWord will become a truly essential tool for me when the style work is
completed, or at least usable. Cheers to you, and for the work you're
putting into it!
>
> Cheers
>
> Martin
>
>
>
> > > [**] Where "madness" == "reveal codes". ;-)
> >
> > This was one nice thing about reveal codes - it is possible to just cut and paste the formatting, though this of course required all the formating to be
> > contiguous. Again, to cut ALL the formating from a particular location and
> > paste in somewhere else would probably eliminate any desire this particular
> > user has for the "madness".
I've lost the original post, and thus the context, of that
"reveal-codes" line, but as WordPerfect user since WP 4.2, I'm still
rather inclined toward that madness; it's still my all-too-often need
last resort for cleaning up messy Word documents I receive (OK, and
sometimes my own foolishness ;-) .
Ron
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