From: Francis James Franklin (f.j.franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sat Jun 28 2003 - 07:08:59 EDT
On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 11:51 AM, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> since you have now done this, and so know how to do this, would you
> consider making the necessary changes to allow us to post AW's native
> format on the clipboard, so that we could do copy/paste within AW
> using awml? At present we use RTF for this, and this causes real
> problems with bidi text, because the AW->RTF conversion is non-
> reversible, i.e., RTFtoAW(AWtoRTF(text)) != text.
I don't really deserve any credit for this. On UNIX at least it would
be trivial to add AWML as application/x-abiword (see ap_UnixApp.cpp and
ap_UnixClipboard.*). I don't know about other platforms.
Hesitant, Frank
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