I have some tabular to markdown cut/paste utilities (I use them with a macro package, but they could also be bundled into services using automator). They're a bit rough, but they work. I'm traveling this week, but drop me email and I'll send you what I have.
Sent from my iPad > On Oct 18, 2015, at 1:45 PM, Rob Willett (Mail Mate) > <rob.mailm...@robertwillett.com> wrote: > > Benny, > > Thanks for the reply. > > I agree we could do something that manipulates the clipboard, I hadn’t > thought of that as an option, if I can work out how to do that and attach it > to a keypress, that would do me. The actual conversion from Excel format to > markdown is the ‘easy’ bit for me, the difficult bit is the manipulation of > the clipboard OR a bundle in MailMate OR a pipe process OR whatever mad > scheme I can think of :) > > I understand the styling is local only and the recipient e-mail could screw > things up, but I can only do what I can do. > > Oddly enough the only styling I’m concerned about is tables, I could live > with Fixed Width Courier for an awful long time :) > > Thanks for taking the time to reply, I’ll go and look at manipulating the > clipboard. > > Rob. > >> On 18 Oct 2015, at 09:53, Benny Kjær Nielsen <mailingl...@freron.com> wrote: >> >> On 17 Oct 2015, at 12:33, Rob Willett (Mail Mate) wrote: >> >> With respect to the subject line: No, there are still no docs on writing >> bundles. >> >>> What I want to do is have an easy way to cut and paste tabular data from an >>> Excel cut and paste. I am very, very happy to write something in Perl, C or >>> shell that takes the output out of MailMate, format the table for markdown >>> and feed it back into MailMate. The processing into Markdown from a CSV or >>> cit/pasreis the easy bit, I’m trying to see if theres anyway to do this as >>> a bundle, a pipe command or whatever so that its easy from MailMate. >> >> It sounds like MailMate doesn't necessarily have to be involved. You kind of >> “just” need a utility which can alter the current content of the pasteboard. >> Replacing the Excel content with a plain text Markdown table. >> >> MailMate does not have a “hook” available for altering what is pasted in the >> Composer, but that is something which could be helpful for various purposes. >> Hopefully I'll look into that at some point (also for dragging things to the >> Composer). >> >> Note that there is a caveat with Markdown tables in MailMate. The styling >> you see is actually local only. The message sent does not include any >> explicit styling and it's at the mercy of whatever the recipient email >> client use as defaults for HTML tables. Hopefully this won't be an issue for >> long since styling of outgoing messages is a high priority item (and 90% >> implemented). >> >> -- >> Benny >> _______________________________________________ >> mailmate mailing list >> mailmate@lists.freron.com >> http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate > > _______________________________________________ > mailmate mailing list > mailmate@lists.freron.com > http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list mailmate@lists.freron.com http://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
