Thanks for answer.

  *   Presumably a feature. If one does a copy and paste, one usually wants the 
format to remain the same.

To me, this does not sound like a feature, but like a bug. LaTeX documentation 
puts a lot of emphasis on the importance of content over looks, and to me it 
seems more logical – in particular in LaTeX and systems with a similar logic 
(e.g., LyX) that it is the local layout where one pastes in text, that actually 
decides on the typesetting – and *not* the source where one copies text from.

I *could* agree on that it may make sense to preserve “font” formatting. But 
not paragraph or list formatting.

The few times I use Word, I almost invariably use paste without formatting (not 
that it works always, though…).

-B

From: John Kane <jrkrid...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 16:04
To: Bernt Lie <bernt....@usn.no>
Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
Subject: Re: Copying from bulleted items -- includes the bullet?

Presumably a feature. If one does a copy and paste, one usually wants the 
format to remain the same.

If you want to change formats, aste and then apply the new format seems the way 
to go.

On 25 April 2018 at 03:40, Bernt Lie 
<bernt....@usn.no<mailto:bernt....@usn.no>> wrote:
I'm using the basic LaTeX article style in LyX 2.2.3 on 64 bit Win 10, latest 
update. The following must be a bug??

If I copy (Ctrl+c) text from a bulleted list, and paste it (Ctrl+v) into, say, 
a data listing, footnote, etc, the bullet is inserted into the construct (data 
listing, bullet, etc.).

Is this a "feature" or a "flaw"?

-B



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John Kane
Kingston ON Canada

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