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Date:	Sun, 26 Aug 2007 09:45:35 -0700
From:	J R FOX <jr_fox@pacbell.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HTML - related question (might also apply to .PDF ?)

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Since the Lucide subject (*) has come up, it reminds
me of a longstanding question:

If I was more familiar with the apps in question -- on
either platform -- I might know the answer to this,
but maybe one of you knows. One thing I would
definitely find useful for HTML things I pull up is
that I'd really like to have a feature where you can
highlight a block of text (some subset of the article,
or whatever) and just lift it out, *with all of the
relevant HTML formatting intact*, and see that portion
later on much as it displayed within the context of
the original article or document. Perhaps this could
be done somehow if one opened the document in
Composer, or OO, or SmartSuite, instead of one's
browser ? Is such a thing even at all feasible ?

Lacking such a function, I've always just used
something like Copy in the browser, or the Copy As
Plain Text extension to lift out the text I wanted,
and given up all the formatting. Where necessary, I
could reformat it later with a word processor. But I
wondered about any possible alternatives.

Another use for such a function would be to be able to
gather up two or more documents, or sections of
different documents, and stitch them together quickly
without having to know how to do a lot of elaborate
HTML stuff from scratch, or to spend the time doing
it.
In this scenario, I'm not looking for polished,
presentation grade end results, just something that is
serviceable for the interim.

Also, take the questions above and apply them to .PDF
documents. (*)

TIA.

Jordan

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