<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I like the plan to improve copy functions over plain text. However, it might be more feasible and productive to copy a (possibly simplified) html snippet to the clipboard rather than producing presentation glyphs that may or may not render in many apps where fallback fonts may or may not be available. <br><br>That is, when I copy-paste a web page into Office, I have to choose whether to import the formatted html, or just the plain text. However, when I paste the same clipboard item into a simple text editor, the formatted option isn't present. A similar approach for sword front ends would fit the user expectation of a rich copy, but also be more likely to succeed in all cases. <br><br>Is there already a sword front end that already has this rich copy enabled (even for a subset of the allowable markups?) </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><br>(And related to the implied reason why this capability is missing:) <br><br>In addition to improving the functionality of the text rendering for copy/paste, the configuration files should probably be improved to include a "copy-allowed" item (and "print-allowed" if/where applicable.) That is, be able to restrict the copy function when the license provided doesn't include even limited copying. This will help to undo the risk of pass-through copying en-mass. </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, May 5, 2019 at 11:00 AM David Haslam <<a href="mailto:dfhdfh@protonmail.com" target="_blank">dfhdfh@protonmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> <div>When pasting a Bible passage from the clipboard to Social media, text styles are usually squished.</div><div><br></div><div>This often means that superscripted verse tags just become ordinary numbers.</div><div>Some front-ends even leave no space between the verse tag and the start of verse text.</div><div>The result in social media is a tad ugly. </div><div><br></div><div>Surely we could do better?</div><div><br></div><div>One bright idea implemented externally by one of our members is simple enough for us to consider adding as a new filter in the SWORD API.</div><div><br></div><div>Convert verse number digits to Unicode superscript digits, ⁰¹²³⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹</div><div><br></div><div>NB. These special 10 characters are not in a continuous block.</div><div><br></div><div>How front-ends might include the filter such that copying a passage to the clipboard would automatically make use of these special characters is yet to be determined, but if the idea is not yet discussed, we’ll not make any progress.</div><div><br></div><div>Aside: I made my own TextPipe filter to convert digits to these special characters.</div><div>I included a restriction to avoid converting chapter numbers. </div><div>I did not yet consider what to do about digits that are part of verse text (such as 144,000).</div><div><br></div><div>Even so, how do software developers feel about the concept ?</div><div><br></div><div>Best regards,</div><div><br></div><div>David</div><div><br></div><div id="gmail-m_7904712694676370054gmail-m_3224890901143450952protonmail_mobile_signature_block">Sent from ProtonMail Mobile</div>_______________________________________________<br>
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