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 just want the plain text. You lose all formatting, but for me, 95% of the time that's the point anyway. OK, I lied slightly. I used to use the editor trick above, but now I mostly have a command line: 'read the clipboard | do stuff | write the clipboard' trick. I do something like the following to do both the above and trim leading/trailing white space. Note this is untested as-written because it's adapted and simplified from some crufty scripts and aliases: Linux: xsel -b | perl -pe 's/^\s+//; s/\s+$/\n/;' | /xsel -bi Mac: pbpaste | perl -pe 's/^\s+//; s/\s+$/\n/;' | pbcopy Windows (Requires UnxUtils and ActivePerl (or could use UnxUtils `sed`)) getclip | perl -pe "s/^\s+//; s/\s+$/\n/;" | putclip On 01/07/2016 10:16 AM, Paulo van Breugel wrote: > Same seems to be true for excel, which is in that case actually very > convenient / handy: > https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Create-a-table-using-LibreOffice%2C-OpenOffice-or-Excel > > On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Jaap Karssenberg > mailto:jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > 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 10, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Marco Cevoli > mailto:marco.cev...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Hi, > > when I copy and paste text from Microsoft PowerPoint into Zim > Wiki, > the text is pasted as an image. Is this the expected behaviour? Is > there an option to always paste text as plain text? Maybe it's > a PPT > issue... I don't know... > > Thanks in advance > > Marco Cevoli > Later, JP -- --- JP Vossen, CISSP | http://www.jpsdomain.org/ | http://bashcookbook.com/ ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Zim-wiki] Pasting from PowerPoint as text?
Same seems to be true for excel, which is in that case actually very convenient / handy: https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki/Create-a-table-using-LibreOffice%2C-OpenOffice-or-Excel On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote: > 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 10, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Marco Cevoli > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> when I copy and paste text from Microsoft PowerPoint into Zim Wiki, >> the text is pasted as an image. Is this the expected behaviour? Is >> there an option to always paste text as plain text? Maybe it's a PPT >> issue... I don't know... >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> Marco Cevoli >> >> ___ >> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net >> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki >> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >> > > > ___ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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 10, 2015 at 9:20 PM, Marco Cevoli wrote: > Hi, > > when I copy and paste text from Microsoft PowerPoint into Zim Wiki, > the text is pasted as an image. Is this the expected behaviour? Is > there an option to always paste text as plain text? Maybe it's a PPT > issue... I don't know... > > Thanks in advance > > Marco Cevoli > > ___ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Zim-wiki] Pasting from PowerPoint as text?
Hi, when I copy and paste text from Microsoft PowerPoint into Zim Wiki, the text is pasted as an image. Is this the expected behaviour? Is there an option to always paste text as plain text? Maybe it's a PPT issue... I don't know... Thanks in advance Marco Cevoli ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki Post to : zim-wiki@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~zim-wiki More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp