Inheriting formats when pasting

[Andy Kass]

Thanks for the input so far, I had forgotten about that setting in maker.ini. Mine
was already set (in Program files, not overridden in my User files):

; notice there's no OLE
ClipboardFormatsPriorities=TEXT, EMF, META, DIB, BMP, MIFW, MIF, RTF, UNICODE TEXT

So that appears to work only for external clipboard sources. Maybe there's still
time to fix this in FM10 :-) Please?

Thanks,

  Andy

----- "Jeff Coatsworth" <jeff.coatsworth at jonassoftware.com> wrote:

> FM10's not out there quite yet - I just tried it in FM9 & it's
> behaving the same way you describe. I remember doing a tweak to my
> maker.ini settings to copy & paste just text from outside sources
> (like Word) without picking up the formatting of the source, but I
> don't think it's making any difference with FM to FM copy/pastes. 
> 
> -----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?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>   Andy
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