Re: [libreoffice-users] copying text with formatting from a web page

Hi :)
Brian is always technically correct so it's well worth taking much more
notice of his suggestions than mine.  I tend to use generalities and maybe
suggest ways of exploring or experimenting or different ways of thinking
and give links to documentation that might help.  Brian 'just' gives the
right answer each time.
Regards from
Tom :)


On 16 October 2015 at 09:42, Gary Collins <gcatlast@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> That's a good suggestion, perhaps I should have thought of it. I will give
> it a go. In general, I use MS because it has been the only one I know
> capable of handling .mht files, and I save web pages using that format
> because I find it *much* more convenient to have the page saved in a single
> file, rather than as a file plus a folder. Perhaps other browsers can now
> open these files now? I don't know, I haven't got around to checking
> recently. You know how it is, you find something that works for you and
> just stick with it - kind of inertia.
>
> I had a reply privately from Brian, though, which suggested that it might
> be due to the type of formatting used in the .css - using "vertical-align",
> and if so, that LO probably wouldn't recognise it. I checked the file in a
> text editor and that is indeed how the superscripting is generated in these
> pages.
>
> I have since found a workaround which is not the most convenient but will
> at least allow me to get done what I need to get done.
>
> best,
> /Gary
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com>
> *To:* Gary Collins <gcatlast@yahoo.co.uk>
> *Cc:* "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> *Sent:* Friday, 9 October 2015, 18:25
> *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] copying text with formatting from a
> web page
>
> Hi :)
> So Microsoft's Internet Explorer only plays well with Microsoft Office?
> Err, is there any surprise there?
>
> Have you tried with other web-browsers?  Internet Explorer often seems to
> be a pos imo and ime.  Each release of it seems to have a load of different
> 'issues' handling internationally agreed standards (yes, Microsoft ARE
> involved in setting those standards!).  So websites sometimes have to write
> extra code specifically aimed at certain versions of IE.  At best IE seems
> to behave more like a trojan as it's so often found to have remarkable
> security issues.  MS usually put out at least 1 or more security patch per
> fortnight to deal with some critical problem or other.
>
> Please, please, please try Chrome, Safari, Opera, or anything else.  Even
> Firefox's worst releases appear to be better than IE.  There are a huge
> range of web-browsers available for free and quite easy to download and
> install.
>
> Personally i would probably paste anything off a website as plain-text and
> then add back the formatting myself.  There are a few websites i kinda
> trust but in general i'd try to avoid risking pulling dodgy formatting and
> what-ever else across into another program/app.
>
> Sorry for the tone here!  Good luck with all this!
> Many apols sand regards from
> Tom :)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 9 October 2015 at 15:54, Gary Collins <gcatlast@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Should've said, I'm using 4.4.3.2/G.
>        From: Gary Collins <gcatlast@yahoo.co.uk>
>  To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
>  Sent: Friday, 9 October 2015, 15:33
>  Subject: [libreoffice-users] copying text with formatting from a web page
>
> Hi,
> I'm copying some text from a web page (windows explorer) into a Writer
> doc; the text copies OK, but I can't seem to preserve superscripting. I've
> tried normal, HTML format and formatted text [RTF] as paste options; I can
> get attributes such as colour pasted, but can't seem to get that
> superscript. MS Word OTOH does preserve the superscript attribute, so it
> must be there on the clipboard. Is there a way of coaxing this information
> into Writer?
> Thanks,/Gary
>
>
>
>
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