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Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch?

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On 12/22/2015 06:34 AM, Joe Beanfish wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 18:18:57 -0800, T wrote:
>
>> On 12/21/2015 06:12 PM, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
>>> On Mon, 21 Dec 2015 16:28:52 -0800, T wrote:
>>>> On 12/21/2015 03:39 PM, Dan Espen wrote:
>>>>> T <T@invalid.invalid> writes:
>>>>>> On 12/21/2015 03:21 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:
>>>>>>> Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> Wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>      From the command line, I can paste to the clipboard with
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>           echo 'abcdefg' | xsel --clipboard
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> How do I tell it I want the text to be formatted
>>>>>>>>> in 10 pitch?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am not sure that you can set a pitch for anything on the clipboard.
>>>>>>>> It is probably stored there as basic ASCII characters, and will
>>>>>>>> acquire the default pitch of any document you paste it into.  There
>>>>>>>> are applications that will send formatted text to the clipboard,
>>>>>>>> but if you paste the text back into a simple text editor, the
>>>>>>>> formatting is lost.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> To continue: if the formattong was preserved, the formatted text
>>>>>>> would have to be different ascii characters, and might not be capable
>>>>>>> of being imported into a console or simple editor. Have a look at
>>>>>>>      man xsel.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am trying to recreate when you have a text editor open and
>>>>>> you copy some 10 pitch text to the clipboard.
>>>>>
>>>>> I can't think of any UNIX software that supports copy/paste of
>>>>> font names or sizes.  I've only seen that on Windows.
>>>>>
>>>>> Oddly, I find that behavior less than useful.
>>>>
>>>> I copy and paste formatted text all the time.  Libre Office to
>>>> Thunderbird, back and forth, etc..  It would drive me nuts
>>>> if I couldn't do it.
>>>
>>> It drives me nuts when I do *do* it -- copying something from a browser
>>> into Libre Office.  What I do is open an intermediate "drop" zone: nano.
>>> I C&P from browser into nano -- then C&P from nano into Libre Office.
>>>
>>> Courses - Horses.
>>> Jonesy
>>>
>>
>> There is "Paste Special"
>>
>> Also, paste to a text only editor like Leafpad will
>> drop all the formatting.  Then recopy and paste
>>
>> Now how do I deliberately format something?
>
> As I suspected, the paste receiver has to ask the provider for the
> formatting info, it's not in the cut buffer. The formatting is not
> available after the source program exits.
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3571179/how-does-x11-clipboard-handle-multiple-data-formats
>
> e.g.:
> Copy some formatted text from libreoffice then run
>    xclip -o -t text/html
> then exit libreoffice and try again. You'll not get the formatting.
>
> So, you don't put formatting in the buffer. You have to hang around to
> service a request for the formatting. How to do that is the next question.
> I'd start that research at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_selection
>


Thank you for the help!

This is "officially" over my head! :-(

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xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-21 02:14 -0800
  Re:xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2015-12-21 22:14 +1100
    Re:xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2015-12-21 22:21 +1100
      Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-21 12:26 -0800
        Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-12-21 18:39 -0500
          Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-21 16:28 -0800
            Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2015-12-22 02:12 +0000
              Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-21 18:18 -0800
                Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-12-22 14:34 +0000
                Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-22 12:24 -0800
            Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-12-21 22:37 -0500
            Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2015-12-22 22:00 +1100
              Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2016-01-28 06:02 +0000
            Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> - 2015-12-23 00:57 +1100
              Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-22 12:24 -0800
          Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-22 08:22 +0000
  Re: xsel: how to I paste to the clipboard in 10 pitch? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2015-12-23 14:04 -0800

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