Is it possible to export the text from Word as RTF, then import into Livecode as RTF?
Bernard On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 11:09 PM, Sieg Lindstrom <s...@trackandfieldnews.com>wrote: > I use a LiveCode app (OSX) to parse text taken from Word files, glean > relevant data, write records to a database and also reformat the original > text in certain ways. I copy and paste text from Word into a field in my > app, click a button and it does the rest, until I upgraded to 5.0x. > > I'll say up front the details of text encoding are not my strong suit. With > earlier versions (RunRev 4.x and earlier), I'd sometimes have to write > special routines to search and replace certain characters from the pasted > text. For example, the em-dash, "‹" (chartonum 209), which after pasting > from Word was seen by RunRev as two characters (a two-byte character?), > numtochar of 32 followed by numtochar of 20 so I wrote a routine to just > search and replace to numToChar of 209. My new problem is that with > LiveCode > 5.0x (I just upgraded to 5.02), the em-dash if pasted from a Word file > instantly disappears from the text. > > This... > > Berlin, Germany, December 12‹ > > becomes this... > > Berlin, Germany, December 12 > > This probably affects other characters; I'm not yet sure which ones. Any > suggestions how I can seamlessly copy and paste the em-dash and other > characters like it from Word to a LiveCode field? The only workaround, very > inelegant, that I've found is to copy and paste from Word to TextEdit and > then from TextEdit to LiveCode app. Not a welcome extra step. Thanks in > advance. > > Sieg > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
