[nylug-talk] .oO or MS Office ? Neither!

Wed Apr 4 13:09:26 EDT 2007

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:06:35AM -0400, Ah Pook wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 April 2007 10:15 am, Sunny Dubey wrote:
> > My experience has been that copy/pasting is the single biggest cause
> > of formatting gone wrong.  Microsoft Office and OpenOffice seem hell
> > bent on preserving the original formatting of the copy/pasted text
> > regardless of the conventions and formatting of the new document. 
> 
> That's probably the single biggest thing that drives me batty.  "NO!  
> That is NOT a date!  And why are you making it BOLD?!" <savage crying>
> 
> But then again, it's 2007, and cut and pasting *still* doesn't work 
> properly between apps in Linux, so I won't hold my breath.

Copying and pasting works fine for GNU stuff on X.  If anything, its the 
DOS boxes at work in the Pharmacy that drive me nuts.

If there are any problems in copying and pasting, its always because of the
application insisting on being DOS Box compatible.  If they elimated that
compulsive need, and just let X do its thing, copying and pasting would be
just fine.  Occasionally I have to open up VI for text to be pasted into
before copying it into OpenOffice.  Meamwhile, nearly all the articles
in http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources/ are outline and middle clicked
across the network from my workstation to the webservers VIM with simple
and easy results.

Ruben

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Copying and pasting works fine for GNU stuff on X.  If anything, its the
DOS boxes at work in the Pharmacy that drive me nuts.

If there are any problems in copying and pasting, its always because of the
application insisting on being DOS Box compatible.  If they elimated that
compulsive need, and just let X do its thing, copying and pasting would be
just fine.  Occasionally I have to open up VI for text to be pasted into
before copying it into OpenOffice.  Meamwhile, nearly all the articles
in http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources/ are outline and middle clicked
across the network from my workstation to the webservers VIM with simple
and easy results.
Copying and pasting works fine for GNU stuff on X.  If anything, its the
DOS boxes at work in the Pharmacy that drive me nuts.

If there are any problems in copying and pasting, its always because of the
application insisting on being DOS Box compatible.  If they elimated that
compulsive need, and just let X do its thing, copying and pasting would be
just fine.  Occasionally I have to open up VI for text to be pasted into
before copying it into OpenOffice.  Meamwhile, nearly all the articles
in http://www2.mrbrklyn.com/resources/ are outline and middle clicked
across the network from my workstation to the webservers VIM with simple
and easy results.

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