tab delimited text parsing on paste

[Jeremy Reichman]

On 1/3/05 2:49 PM, "Daniel Flatin" <dflatin at rcn.com> wrote:

> In addition to the poor grammar, I was sorry to see that OO3 does not even
> attempt to parse the
> pasted text. To see this in action, just create a simple outline with one
> column in addition to the
> topic and set it to be numerical. Then paste in a few lines like:
> 
> item1   1
> item2   2
> item3   3
> 
> Be sure you don't have a text insertion point (flashing vertical bar) in the
> topic column before
> pasting or all your text will be inserted into one topic field.

I've commented on the parsing of pasted text, and the copying of text to be
pasted into other apps, since version 1.x. I would really like to see
improvements there but have not tried what I wanted to do in OO 3 beta yet.

I'd just love to see tab-indented text paste into OO as an outline. If OO3
does this, I will certainly upgrade. It's that simple.

A newer wish would include better copy-paste interaction with Entourage
2004. I paste of lot of meeting minutes from OO 2.x into Entourage outgoing
mail -- and get RTF-styled text, even though my Entourage window is set for
plain text (rather than styled/HTML text). In my situation, if I drop to the
Terminal and then run:

% pbpaste | pbcopy

... the OO data on the clipboard is stripped of its styling and I can paste
into Entourage as plain text. (This very well could be Entourage's problem,
but I find it hard to say, definitively. I also get this kind of thing when
I paste OO outlines into BBEdit.)

In the past, though, I've also had problems like yours, Daniel, with
copying/pasting. OO doesn't handle it as well as other apps I've used, like
BrainForest Pro.


--
Jeremy