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[JP Vossen <jp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you are a CLI junky:

sudo apt-get install xsel
alias gc='xsel -b'	# Get Clipboard
alias pc='xsel -bi'	# Put Clipboard

Now you can do many awesome things by reading/writing the clipboard and 
using CLI tools!

Then:
alias strip='xsel -b | xsel -bi'	# Strip <stuff> for Zim

You might be able to add something like that to a launcher.  Worst case 
you could write a 2 line shell script and add that to a Mint launcher. 
I personally find it easier to flip to my CLI and do it, but whatever.

FYI, I'm writing this from Thunderbird on Mint 17. :-)


On 04/20/2016 04:55 AM, J. M. Korhonen wrote:
> Thanks for the help. It indeed seems to be a problem with source
> program, as formatted text from e.g. OpenOffice pastes nicely. Ah well,
> will have to continue using the gedit intermediate step; from answers to
> Marco's earlier question, I noted that there's apparently Perl script
> that strips the clipboard formatting but I'm probably too lazy to use it
> :).
>
> My system is Linux Mint 17.3., BTW.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Janne
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Marco Cevoli <marco.cevoli@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:marco.cevoli@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     I had a similar issue with text pasted from PowerPoint, which is
>     pasted as image. It's something related to the "source" program, not
>     to Zim Wiki. If you search for messages posted by me, you should see
>     the answer I got at the time I posted about this strange behaviour
>     (sorry, I can't remember what it was).
>
>     Regards
>
>     Marco Cevoli
>
>
>     On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 2:15 PM, Paulo van Breugel
>     <p.vanbreugel@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:p.vanbreugel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>      >
>      >
>      > On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 1:52 PM, J. M. Korhonen
>     <jmkorhonen@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:jmkorhonen@xxxxxxxxx>>
>      > wrote:
>      >>
>      >> Hiya, and many thanks for excellent note-keeping software.
>      >>
>      >> The only problem I have with it is that I sometimes need to
>     copypaste
>      >> formatted (rich) text to my notes; specifically, I have a
>     reference manager
>      >> (Mendeley) that on command copies a formatted citation of a
>     paper to my
>      >> clipboard, and I'd like to paste that directly to my note.
>     Ctrl-V or Paste
>      >> command on Zim editor window doesn't do anything, apparently
>     because the
>      >> citation is formatted (e.g. journal name in italics).
>      >
>      >
>      > That is strange, I can copy formatted text to Zim without
>     problems, for
>      > example when copy/paste formatted text from Zotero (the text is
>     pasted as
>      > unformatted text in Zim). What OS are you on (I am on Linux)?
>      >
>      >>
>      >>
>      >> My workaround is that I paste the citation to gedit text editor,
>     which
>      >> strips it of formatting, and then copypaste from there to Zim.
>     This is a bit
>      >> clunky approach, and I was wondering whether there is some way
>     to get around
>      >> the problem? I'd love to be able to paste any text directly to
>     Zim editor,
>      >> with Zim stripping the formatting automatically.
>      >>
>      >> I tried to search if anyone else has the same issue, but
>     couldn't find any
>      >> leads.


Later,
JP
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