Outliner 1.2 and copy-paste text export changes

Kent Johnson kent at pondview.mv.com
Fri Jan 11 13:12:04 PST 2002


At 10:40 AM -0500 1/11/02, Jeremy Reichman wrote:
>The new Outliner 1.2 changes the way copy and paste is handled with 
>other applications. (I noticed it because it adversely affected a 
>slightly-scripted workflow I'd already built around OO.)
>
>I select the entire contents of an outline in OO. The outline has 
>its status checkboxes hideen, and has no extra columns.
>
>I paste the text into BBEdit 6.5. It pastes in with each new outline 
>line marked with a dash ("-") instead of the older version's 
>asterisk ("*"). It also hard wraps the text to an abnormally narrow 
>column width, which did not happen in the previous version.

You can make the wrap width wider by setting it in the 'show column 
info' window. If you make it big enough it will not wrap. I think 
that outlines without columns shouldn't wrap at all.

Kent



More information about the OmniOutliner-Users mailing list