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[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>]

2009/2/1 Jose Quesada <quesada@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hi,
>
> One thing that I find myself doing a lot is copying from webpages.
> Unfortunately, when I paste in zim, it's all plain text.
>
> Would it be very difficult to covert the html in the clipboard to the
> basic wiki language that zim uses?
> my guess: yes :) In any case, this would be a killer feature. Other
> notetakers (onenote, evernote, etc) do this, and that's a clear
> advantage. For example, if you copy a table from the web, you ideally
> want to keep a table.
>
> Thanks
>

For one thing, that would mean that Zim needs to support tables! See:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/zim/+bug/208589

I like the idea in general, however, from experience I usually want to
paste the _text_ (information) of webpages, not some designer's HTML.
Open Office drives me nuts when it tries to paste HTML. So if it is
made possible, please, make it optional.

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Dotan Cohen

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