[Clipping] Retain Text format (Line spacing) from clipped page to clipped note.

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[Clipping] Retain Text format (Line spacing) from clipped page to clipped note.

Postby kranor » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:18 am

Quite often when I clip text it is in tabular form, once the clipped text is viewed in Cintanotes the word spacing goes adrift and what could be a useful list then has to be edited which for a 500+ line clip takes a very long time. Trying to export the note to xml or txt, editing it and then importing it back does retain edited changes . But when viewed in CintaNotes the format is lost. To make this clear when I talk about format I do not mean font, Bold or italics. I mean Spacing

I really need the format to remain for about 50% of my notes so I guess it could be user configurable.
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Re: [Clipping] Retain Text format (Line spacing) from clipped page to clipped note.

Postby CintaNotes Developer » Thu Jun 11, 2009 7:54 am

kranor wrote:Quite often when I clip text it is in tabular form, once the clipped text is viewed in Cintanotes the word spacing goes adrift and what could be a useful list then has to be edited which for a 500+ line clip takes a very long time. Trying to export the note to xml or txt, editing it and then importing it back does retain edited changes . But when viewed in CintaNotes the format is lost. To make this clear when I talk about format I do not mean font, Bold or italics. I mean Spacing

I really need the format to remain for about 50% of my notes so I guess it could be user configurable.


Have you tried setting a monospaced font for the note's text, such as Courier New?
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Re: [Clipping] Retain Text format (Line spacing) from clipped page to clipped note.

Postby kranor » Thu Jun 11, 2009 8:04 am

Now you see that is why we like you :D
Perfect !!!

I think you need to come up with something about this in the tips post.
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Re: [Clipping] Retain Text format (Line spacing) from clipped page to clipped note.

Postby Noddy330 » Thu Jun 11, 2009 1:22 pm

Does retaining TABS (as already requested) come into this? Nod
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Re: [Clipping] Retain Text format (Line spacing) from clipped page to clipped note.

Postby Midas » Thu Jun 11, 2009 3:55 pm

On a related peeve, I'd appreciate very much if there was a option for removing left indents (spaces/tabs), a task I find myself doing manually too many times.
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Re: [Clipping] Retain Text format (Line spacing) from clipped page to clipped note.

Postby Noddy330 » Thu Jun 11, 2009 4:08 pm

I use Stripmail (http://www.stripmail.net/) to tidy text.
It "Configures forwarded e-mail messages, making them easier-to-read."
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Re: [Clipping] Retain Text format (Line spacing) from clipped page to clipped note.

Postby CintaNotes Developer » Sat Jun 13, 2009 9:52 am

Guys, these are three loosely related features, I think we should manage them in separate topics.
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