In message <c764bca24e.jr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > In message <1bb67ba24e.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Martin Wuerthner <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> In message <c3c17aa24e.jr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> rickman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>> So although it is good to know that I can get plain text into a text >>> area, I still don't know how to: >>> a) get text with effects into the text area from another app. > >> There is no way, but not even dedicated word processors can do that >> via the clipboard. Which other application(s) are you thinking of? > > I can't think of RISC OS apps that do it but you can achieve it > between MSWord and Xara - MSWord offers Xara a choice of plain text or > Metafile and if you choose Metafile you get something like what you > started with. Ah, yes, via Metafile but that is an entirely different story. You can do the same between EasiWriter and ArtWorks: In EasiWriter, choose "Save area as Draw", drag a box to select the words you want, then drag into ArtWorks and you get the text including effects. >>> These are all obvious items for clipboard actions. >> With a) it is not that obvious really. >> Martin > Agreed, but if ArtWorks supported one of the text markup formats eg > DDL, DDF, or RTF then it could achieve the preservation of styles with > drag and drop. The problem is that "one of the text markup formats" would not do because there is no format that more than one application can save. OvationPro: can only save as DDL Impression: can only save as DDF EasiWriter: can only save as RTF (or HTML) So, ArtWorks would have to support three different formats to allow formatted text to be imported from the three major RISC OS word processors. So, we are down to the usual problem: Too many alternatives to implement all of them and too little value in implementing one of them. Mind you, the situation is entirely different in the other direction: Each of the above can import DDF. Martin -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Wuerthner MW Software lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------------