Re: [Zim-wiki] Pasting from PowerPoint as text?

Hi Marco, Sorry for the late reply. This is an issue that is bugging me as well. Problem is that applications need to negotiate about the format to use, looks like powerpoint prefers images over plain text. Will need some investigation to get it to work differently. Regards, Jaap On Tue, Nov

Re: [Zim-wiki] curly brackets, escape them?

Hi Jaap, thanks for the note. I understand your point, but it does strike me as a bug none-the-less in that I've typed something in to the GUI which is then changed upon reloading. Does zim have no facilities for protecting/escaping special characters in the underlying source when they are

Re: [Zim-wiki] Pasting from PowerPoint as text?

You can usually do an intermediate step where you paste into a "dumb" editor that does not support any kind of rich text, then copy from there and paste into Zim. Gedit, Notepad, and Text Editor are all good for that. I use that trick all the time to clear all kinds of cruft out of stuff when I

Re: [Zim-wiki] curly brackets, escape them?

Hi Joseph, Yes that is the plugin I mean. Agree, we should have an escape character for those sequences. But still not sure whether it should be escaped automatically. Yes it presents the user with unintended behavior, which in general is a bad thing. On the other hand, being able to input wiki

Re: [Zim-wiki] curly brackets, escape them?

As a side note, I use the 'insert code block' a lot. What would make it more intuitive to use, or faster in any case, is a shortcut, like for verbatim text. On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 8:44 PM, Joseph Reagle wrote: > On 01/07/2016 10:54 AM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > > thing.

Re: [Zim-wiki] curly brackets, escape them?

On 01/07/2016 03:21 PM, Paulo van Breugel wrote: > As a side note, I use the 'insert code block' a lot. What would make > it more intuitive to use, or faster in any case, is a shortcut, like > for verbatim text. Huh, I think I still must not understand this (using 0.60). When I want to edit the

Re: [Zim-wiki] curly brackets, escape them?

I was talking about using the 'insert code block' option, one of the solution Jaap mentioned earlier (menu: insert: code block). For verbatim text there is ctrl + T, but of course with code block there is in any case an additional step of selecting the code syntax. On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 9:27 PM,

Re: [Zim-wiki] curly brackets, escape them?

6.4 I think, but I am not sure On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 10:40 PM, Joseph Reagle wrote: > On 01/07/2016 03:55 PM, Paulo van Breugel wrote: > > I was talking about using the 'insert code block' option, one of the > > solution Jaap mentioned earlier (menu: insert: code

Re: [Zim-wiki] curly brackets, escape them?

On 01/07/2016 03:55 PM, Paulo van Breugel wrote: > I was talking about using the 'insert code block' option, one of the > solution Jaap mentioned earlier (menu: insert: code block). For > verbatim text there is ctrl + T, but of course with code block there > is in any case an additional step of