Mathias Michaelis wrote:

> > What is the added value of marking
> > it as HTML on the clipboard?
> > 
> The added value is that you are able to paste the text into a word
> processing program like AbiWord, MS Word or StarWriter in a way that
> the HTML-Tags are not shown, but are interpreted by the word
> processing program in order to format the text as it would be
> formatted in a HTML browser.
> 
> To achieve this know, I only see one way: Convert your text to HTML,
> then save it as HTML, open it with a web browser, copy it from here
> into the clipboard and paste it into a word processing program.

Why don't these programs offer the option "paste as HTML"?  I mean, the
user must have a choice if he wants the HTML as text or the resulting
markup.

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