MikeW Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 10 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: I'm curious, Mike, whether you need to use Paste Special? I would think it would be better for Publisher to automatically picks the most feature-rich version in the clipboard, but if that were happening you should just be able to do a Paste. No, I don't because APub will paste by default the top choice, which is RTF in this case. Mainly I was just pointing out that if RTF is available from the host application, it will be available to the receiving application and so shows up as a choice when using Paste Special. My text editor places both the formats on the clipboard if choosing to do so, else only Unicode format is copied. And while that works great for what I usually use, it is unformatted text. But really, the paste to Word/LibreOffice Writer, copy/paste into APub takes just a second or two longer and that should work for everyone. As I showed above, then the style desired can be applied and Bob's your uncle... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davide.Barranca Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 39 minutes ago, MikeW said: My programming text editor on the right, APub on the left and I had already used Paste Special. Uhm, I may be missing something here – can I ask you where to find Paste Special? I seem unable to open the dialog your screenshot shows. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Edit menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davide.Barranca Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 10 minutes ago, MikeW said: Edit menu. Among the many flavours of Paste, Special is missing... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 I use a PC...it may be a Mac thing as to it not being available. Bummer. So does pasting into Word or LibreOffice Writer carry over the syntax colors? If so, does copying/pasting from either word processor into APub work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davide.Barranca Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Very weird indeed! I would have expected a 1:1 match between platforms. I've not used Word or LibreOffice as a bridge but Apple Pages (so it's VSCode -> Pages -> APub), and it seems to work. As I wrote, even if I do some InDesign stuff I'm not experienced enough to know how page design applications deal with code syntax highlighting, hence the question about the opportunity of a feat. request. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeW Posted September 18, 2019 Share Posted September 18, 2019 Just now, Davide.Barranca said: ... I'm not experienced enough to know how page design applications deal with code syntax highlighting ... Good there is a work-around that works. I would recommend actually creating a new post in the Request forum. fwiw, neither ID nor QXP have Paste Special and the actual RTF coding is what is pasted. RTF files are basically plain text with formatting code. Whether I'm using a snippet or full code, I paste code into Word from my editor. Then that Word file gets converted to tagged text, which is then placed into the layout application. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MikeW Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 1 hour ago, Lagarto said: ...QuarkXPress (2018) does not seem to support pasting of colored RTF, at all. I don't know if formatting will come into Q2019 with the October update from a text editor, but it will bring with it the copy/paste of rtf from Word itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Davide.Barranca Posted September 22, 2019 Share Posted September 22, 2019 Hi, I've just submitted a feat request here, feel free to vote it :-) I doubt it would ever have high priority, but one should always try. Thanks for all the comments, Davide Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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