On 05/26/2011 05:25 PM, Andrew Parsloe wrote: > > These have been interesting responses. I was unaware of the complexity > of the issue. In fact I'm not after minutely detailed reproduction of > the original character style -- fingerpainting -- but was hoping that > emphasised text in the original might be preserved as emphasised text > after pasting, the same for bolding, as it is in Word, Abiword, Open > Office, irrespective of what happens to the font, text size and so on. > But of course this is fingerpainting. Emphasized text is being translated as /italic/, and bold text is being translated as *bold*. Italic is not emphasized, and bold is not strong. That is: This information is coming from what fonts are used, not from anything structural.
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