Sven Schreiber wrote: >If other users are also concerned about the copy&paste-situation, please >make your opinion visible on this list as well. (in a friendly way, of >course) > > This has been an issue for me too. Other programs like ms office, mozilla/thunderbird and openoffice do a great job of accepting different text formats in external pasted text. As I understand it, it centers on the source document making copied data available in a number of different formats, and then target document chooses and inserts whichever format of the data it can best utilise, for example bitmap, text, html, rtf. MS Office and OpenOffice make this process transparent with their 'Paste Special' commands (which should be the nomenclature used by LyX, I think -- there shouldn't be a separate internal clipboard, either, since 'ctrl-v' should *always* paste in the 'best format' of whatever you just copied, regardless of where it came from).
For me the cut-and-paste text formatting features that would be most useful would be paragraphs, bold, italic and typewriter styles, followed by ordered/unordered lists and then tables and then images. This would useful for cutting and pasting from web pages, wordprocessor documents and PDFs. The current 'paste as lines' and 'paste as paragraphs' are good for pasting in plain text but become frustrating when you start having bold/italics and other markup in your text. BTW we are trying to use LyX after migrating some old FrameMaker files (painfully) for the ASCEND project, https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/wiki/view/Ascend/DocumentingAscend Cheers JP http://pye.dyndns.org/
