Just as HyperCard's FIND command has certain variations -- FIND INTERNATIONAL, and FIND CHARS, and FIND WORDS, and so on -- I think we could do worse than give a variant or two to the COPY command: COPY FROM [container1] TO [container2]: The standard, ASCII-only variant. COPY TEXT FROM [container1] TO [container2]: Optional form of the standard variant. COPY RAWTEXT FROM [container1] TO [container2]: Same as above, different variant. COPY STYLEDTEXT FROM [container1] TO [container2]: The enhanced, style-preserving variant. COPY FANCYTEXT FROM [container1] TO [container2]: Another style-preserving variant. While I'm on a roll, here's another variant that might be useful: COPY STYLES FROM [container1] TO [container2]: This one copies *only* the text-style information from [container1], rather like the PASTE SPECIAL command in Excel and other spreadsheets. If the text in [container1] has more than one specific textstyle within it (i.e. some plain text, some bold, some italic), I'd recommend that we just take the textStyle info from the FIRST character in [container1]. As ever, all comments are welcome...
