Re: Copying and pasting to other apps

2014-04-29 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
On 27/04/2014 23:11, Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: On 27/04/14 16:58, Georg Baum wrote: If you copy something, it is put onto the clipboard in three formats: plain text, HTML (using the HTML export) and LyX since version 2.1. The pasting application is then supposed to select the most appropriate f

Re: Copying and pasting to other apps

2014-04-28 Thread Georg Baum
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > Cool! In my case, I was simply trying with the system LyX from Ubuntu > (2.0.6), but I just tried with trunk, and it worked perfectly indeed, > including tables AND maths! I'm actually impressed by the maths working > visually when copied from LyX, how is that done? I do

Re: Copying and pasting to other apps

2014-04-27 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 27/04/14 16:58, Georg Baum wrote: > If you copy something, it is put onto the clipboard in three formats: plain > text, HTML (using the HTML export) and LyX since version 2.1. The pasting > application is then supposed to select the most appropriate format. In your > case something goes wrong

Re: Copying and pasting to other apps (was: Re: Feature request)

2014-04-27 Thread Georg Baum
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote: > So, a couple of extra questions: > a) when you copy LyX text, is there any way to get (also?) the exported > HTML into the clipboard ? b) would we need a special "copy as HTML" for > that? If you copy something, it is put onto the clipboard in three formats: plain text

Re: Copying and pasting to other apps

2014-04-27 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
Just a tiny addition: when you re-write with LibreOffice the same exact text segment, with a few boldface and emphasized and bullet and numbered lists, and copy that to Thunderbird with C-c, C-v, it just works as expected. I also just tried a table, and it's copied just OK in Thunderbird, but if

Copying and pasting to other apps (was: Re: Feature request)

2014-04-27 Thread Tommaso Cucinotta
On 27/04/14 10:18, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > So my feature request would be able: > 1) write in LyX > 2) select and copy > 3) paste as html in Thunderbird. > > Maybe this is already possible. It is indeed, but with a few hiccups: 1) boldface and emphasized font variations do not get copied at al