Awesome Christiaan,
thank you!
Peter

On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 10:50 PM Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>
> On 26 Jun 2019, at 21:07, Peter Olin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all, I'm becoming a frequent user and fan of Skim, thanks for a great
> piece of software. I'm learning more and more productive ways of utilizing
> the note taking capabilities.
>
> When exporting the Notes I stumbled upon this anomaly, that I'm not sure
> if it is by design, or merely an oversight, or if I have failed to find the
> right way to do it.
>
> *(See screenshot for the references to point 1 and 2)*
> When exporting the notes where the notes have been edited, I cannot make
> the (originally) highlighted text appear in the exported notes. The default
> templates don't include it, and I cant find any documentation at
> https://sourceforge.net/p/skim-app/wiki/Templates/#note that shows how to
> get the uneditable/unedited text of the Highlight in point 1 to appear in
> the exported note file.
>
> In point 2, it works just fine, since the two text entries are identical.
>
> One would assume that all the data is availble i the Skim note file - so
> that it should be possible to have both of them available as Template Value
> Keys.
>
> To add a value like "(original)Higlight" to the set of available Template
> Value Keys would be a great solution from the user's perspective.
>
> See attached screenshot and exported file (using the original RTF
> template).
>
> <image.png>
>
> —
> Kind regards,
> Peter Olin
> <Skim Highlight export issue.rtf>
>
>
> We don’t include it in the default template. By default the note text os
> the same as the highlighted text, so this would just be a duplicate.
>
> As for using it in a custom template, this is returned <$textString/>,
> which is defined for anchored and markup notes. It is plain text.
>
> Alternatively, you can use <$selection.cleanedString/>,
> <$selection.string/>, or <$selection.attributedString/>, which are defined
> only for markup notes.
>
> Christiaan
>
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Kind regards,
Peter Olin
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