>..... it looks like it is seeing the outer < and > and removing everything >between.
Confirmed. Thus the nested "<<" makes no difference in what it removes. For example, if one were to add this phrase to any notes, <<This is text that I want to keep>>, and then hit the Strip HTML button, it would ALL be erased. In other words, it seems as if it's not really looking for HTML codes but merely the "less than" sign and the "greater than" sign as flags, and then assumes it must all be HTML so everything goes into the bit bucket. Along similar lines, I remember several months back when I got fancy with my treatment for Unknown names and entered them as <Unknown>. You cannot believe the HTML mess I got when Gedcoms were uploaded to Ancestry's web pages. Your conjecture that the characters might be alt0171 and alt0187 might be possible but I can't see how they can be confused because they are so much smaller. Here is the ASCII Code for such printable characters: ASCII code 174 = « ( Angle quotes, guillemets, right-pointing quotation mark ) ASCII code 175 = » ( Guillemets, angle quotes, left-pointing quotation marks ) The double "smaller than/greater than" characters would look like << and >>. Close but no cigar. But I do like your other suggestion to do a "Search and Replace" to permanently get rid of the offending characters whether they be RTF formatting codes or printable ASCII characters. Hopefully the OP can utilize one or more of these methods and achieve some joy. Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 3:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] sneaky <<tab>> It may be because the arrows before and after the tab are not two arrows << and >> but are alt0171 « and alt0187 » characters which are not recognized as HTML but are part of the RTF code for a tab character. Also the Strip HTML removes text between single arrows <text to be removed> but I see it works when there are nested << and >> as well, it looks like it is seeing the outer < and > and removing everything between. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com On 23/01/2016 16:26, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote: > Before posting my message, I tested adding <<tab>> in one of my notes then > hit Strip HTML and it was removed. Don't know why yours is different. > > Brian > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Eliz Hanebury [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2016 11:51 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] sneaky <<tab>> > > Brian, strip HTML doesn't work on <<tab>> in my Legacy, an please note that > the <<tab>> in inline not at the end. > > I don't easily find many of the goodies in Legacy but strip HTML is right > where I can see and find it <G> and use it. > Eliz > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2016 at 12:28 PM, Brian L. Lightfoot > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Or she could just permanently remove them from the Notes sections >> where the text was entered by clicking on the “Strip HTML†button on >> that Note. >> Copying and pasting directly from Ancestry and FamilySearch will often >> include these invisible tabs even at the end of lines making them >> difficult to see without clicking the mouse to locate a cursor beyond >> the end of the line. If the cursor sticks an inch away from the end of >> a line, then you’ve got some hidden tabs there. If you can see some >> visible tabs (“<<tab>>â€), the Strip HTML button works on that also. >> Just get in the habit of clicking on the Strip HTML button whenever pasting >> text from a web source. >> >> Brian in California >> >> No blizzard here >> >> From: Cathy Pinner [mailto:[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 6:45 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] sneaky <<tab>> >> >> Try this. >> >> I just tried and I think it's worked >> >> when exporting the Gedcom tick to "convert formatting styles to HTML style" >> >> but I haven't uploaded the Gedcom anywhere - just looked at it. >> >> Cathy >> >> >> Eliz Hanebury wrote: >> >> Okay support<G> I didn't much like this when only I could see these >> <<tab>> but now I see them all over my World Connect tree. I might >> have noticed earlier if I visited it more often. How do I kill >> <<tab>>? >> >> FOLIO:«tab»634 >> PAGE NUMBER:«tab»20 >> HOUSEHOLD SCHEDULE NUMBER:«tab»65 >> HOUSEHOLD MEMBERS:«tab» >> NAME«tab»AGE >> Edward James«tab»46 >> Sussanah James«tab»44 >> Naomi James«tab»18 >> David James«tab»16 >> Margaret James«tab»13 >> Elizabeth James«tab»11 >> Edward James«tab»9 >> Richard James«tab»7 >> Aaron James«tab»5 >> Sarah James«tab»1 >> Eliz Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://support.legacyfamilytree.com Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
