Author Topic: Pasting rich text into notes (Read 9469 times)

qwerty · « **on:** March 20, 2013, 03:04:22 am »

I'm on V10. When pasting rich text into class notes I see two effects:
- The original size appears when pasting, but once re-opened the font has the default size
- Leading blanks seem to be stripped off
(FWIW: The paste buffer is filled from my Mac and travels through Parallels into the windoze environment, but that works fine for other applications.)

Anyone seeing the same result?

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[edit] The leading blank stripping seems to be an issue with EA/Parallesl paste buffer. When I paste into Wordpad first the leading blanks are preserved. Only when pasting directly into EA they get stripped. However, the size issue is still there.

Eve · « **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2013, 09:24:16 am »

For as long as we've had rich edit controls you could paste text with formatting that EA didn't support and see this behavior. It's a bug, but I think a relatively minor one.

qwerty · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2013, 10:39:59 am »

I once worked for Siemens and whenever their QA found things like that you had to correct it. Probably QA in Germany and Australia have a different attitude. But I wished your QA would be a bit more Germanized...

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skiwi · « **Reply #3 on:** April 08, 2013, 08:07:28 am »

This so called "bug" - more likely just neglectfulness on the part of a requirement specification, has been around for at least 4 major versions of EA.

See the image below for what happens (cute eh) when you paste from Word tables (and this has been reported by me as a bug)

See also
* notes naughtiness and nuisances - table paste
* Notes paste does not work as expected
* Embed graphics into notes field and Embedding images in Notes
* Richer note fields (on elements)

Edward IV · « **Reply #4 on:** April 09, 2013, 07:42:22 am »

Notes in EA are pretty poor. They don't even support sub-lists, such as:
1. Item 1
2. Item 2
a. Item 2a
b. Item 2b
3. Item 3

If you paste it in from a document, it displays correctly, but loses it all when you click out and refresh.

This should be considered a bug - and not a "minor" one because using the Generate Documentation feature really suffers here.

qwerty · « **Reply #5 on:** April 09, 2013, 10:31:44 am »

Unfortunately this is a Catch 22. EA has it's internal storage format for notes and they don't dare to move away from it.

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Edward IV · « **Reply #6 on:** April 09, 2013, 12:47:54 pm »

That doesn't make much sense - I don't see the Catch 22 here and I don't see why they don't either add more formatting features or just a regular RTF editor for the notes. The other thing is that even if you link an RTF file to a component to get around the formatting limitations, the RTF doesn't get exported when you generate a document (at least no by the built-in tempates).

qwerty · « **Reply #7 on:** April 09, 2013, 06:08:47 pm »

If someone sticks to a proprietary format for more than 10 years while there's HTML outside this definitely looks like a Catch 22 - at least for Sparx, the provider of the format. You'll get caught too if you start thinking, they're going to change it

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skiwi · « **Reply #8 on:** August 21, 2014, 12:03:55 pm »

bug reports or not, this is still not fixed in EA 11

skiwi · « **Reply #9 on:** May 15, 2015, 01:15:58 pm »

not in EA 12

mgm · « **Reply #10 on:** November 17, 2018, 12:08:11 am »

not in EA 14

qwerty · « **Reply #11 on:** November 28, 2018, 06:21:48 am »

Woah! Lotus Notes is still used. I'm baffled.

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Glassboy · « **Reply #12 on:** November 28, 2018, 08:21:40 am »

Quote from: qwerty on November 28, 2018, 06:21:48 am

Woah! Lotus Notes is still used. I'm baffled.

It's like the herpes virus of IT systems :-)

Actually it's not that bad. We have some case management systems here in NZ running on Notes that have extremely low cost of ownership.

qwerty · « **Reply #13 on:** November 28, 2018, 07:04:55 pm »

What a coincidence. I just got my yearly herpes outbreak just this week.

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