Re: [libreoffice-users] copying text with formatting from a web page

Tom, 
That's a good suggestion, perhaps I should have thought of it. I will give it a go. In general, I 
use MS because it has been the only one I know capable of handling .mht files, and I save web pages 
using that format because I find it *much* more convenient to have the page saved in a single file, 
rather than as a file plus a folder. Perhaps other browsers can now open these files now? I don't 
know, I haven't got around to checking recently. You know how it is, you find something that works 
for you and just stick with it - kind of inertia.
I had a reply privately from Brian, though, which suggested that it might be due to the type of 
formatting used in the .css - using "vertical-align", and if so, that LO probably wouldn't 
recognise it. I checked the file in a text editor and that is indeed how the superscripting is 
generated in these pages. 
I have since found a workaround which is not the most convenient but will at least allow me to get 
done what I need to get done.
best,/Gary
       From: Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com>
 To: Gary Collins <gcatlast@yahoo.co.uk> 
Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org> 
 Sent: Friday, 9 October 2015, 18:25
 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] copying text with formatting from a web page
   
Hi :)  So Microsoft's Internet Explorer only plays well with Microsoft Office?  Err, is there any 
surprise there?  
Have you tried with other web-browsers?  Internet Explorer often seems to be a pos imo and ime.  
Each release of it seems to have a load of different 'issues' handling internationally agreed 
standards (yes, Microsoft ARE involved in setting those standards!).  So websites sometimes have to 
write extra code specifically aimed at certain versions of IE.  At best IE seems to behave more 
like a trojan as it's so often found to have remarkable security issues.  MS usually put out at 
least 1 or more security patch per fortnight to deal with some critical problem or other.  
Please, please, please try Chrome, Safari, Opera, or anything else.  Even Firefox's worst releases 
appear to be better than IE.  There are a huge range of web-browsers available for free and quite 
easy to download and install.  
Personally i would probably paste anything off a website as plain-text and then add back the 
formatting myself.  There are a few websites i kinda trust but in general i'd try to avoid risking 
pulling dodgy formatting and what-ever else across into another program/app.  
Sorry for the tone here!  Good luck with all this! Many apols sand regards from Tom :)  


 


On 9 October 2015 at 15:54, Gary Collins <gcatlast@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

Should've said, I'm using 4.4.3.2/G.
       From: Gary Collins <gcatlast@yahoo.co.uk>
 To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
 Sent: Friday, 9 October 2015, 15:33
 Subject: [libreoffice-users] copying text with formatting from a web page

Hi,
I'm copying some text from a web page (windows explorer) into a Writer doc; the text copies OK, but 
I can't seem to preserve superscripting. I've tried normal, HTML format and formatted text [RTF] as 
paste options; I can get attributes such as colour pasted, but can't seem to get that superscript. 
MS Word OTOH does preserve the superscript attribute, so it must be there on the clipboard. Is 
there a way of coaxing this information into Writer?
Thanks,/Gary


    
 
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