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. -- >From "know your smileys": :----} You lie like Pinocchio /// Bram Moolenaar -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://www.Moolenaar.net \\\ /// sponsor Vim, vote for features -- http://www.Vim.org/sponsor/ \\\ \\\ download, build and distribute -- http://www.A-A-P.org /// \\\ help me help AIDS victims -- http://ICCF-Holland.org ///