Inheriting formats when pasting

[Fred Ridder]

Sorry Rick, but unless this has changed in FM9 (I'm still using FM8) this only affects content that is being pasted via the Windows clipboard--that is content from external applications. Cutting/copying and pasting within FrameMaker behaves as Andy has described regardless of the ClipboardFormatsPriorities setting.
 
But I would guess that a simple FrameScript script could execute a standard paste and then automatically apply the Default Para Font property to the pasted chunk. And maybe even do an update on any xref or user variable that was in the pasted chunk in case a character property is part of the reference's format.
 
-Fred Ridder
 
 
> From: rick at rickquatro.com
> To: akass at jaspersoft.com; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: RE: Inheriting formats when pasting
> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2010 13:16:27 -0500
> 
> Hi Andy,
> 
> If you look in the maker.ini for this key, you can change the default paste:
> 
> ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, FILE, OLE 2, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIFW,
> MIF, RTF, UNICODE TEXT
> 
> Rick Quatro
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> rick at frameexpert.com
> 
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> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com
> [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Andy Kass
> Sent: Friday, November 26, 2010 12:54 PM
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Inheriting formats when pasting
> 
> Hi everyone, and Happy Thanksgiving,
> 
> Here's a FM 8 (p277) question for you to ponder, it's been bugging me for
> some time.
> 
> When I cut-and-paste between paragraphs of different fonts (or any other
> format), Frame remembers the source formatting, and pastes it along with the
> text. So our strict formats get all mixed up.
> 
> I usually just use Paste Special... to paste as text, so it takes the
> formatting of the target paragraph. It's rather annoying to have to do 3
> extra clicks to do something as simple as pasting. But even that doesn't
> work if I'm pasting a cross reference or special character like a
> non-breaking space--they get lost when pasting as plain text. For that, I
> have to do a regular paste, then reselect and fix the formatting to Default
> P Font.
> 
> It seems that FrameMaker knows how to do this because if I do a search and
> replace with text that has special characters, they appear correctly
> anywhere they get inserted (though if you replace by pasting, you're back to
> the same problem).
> 
> Is there a way to configure "smart" paste by default? Do FM9 or 10 behave
> differently?