Re: Saving markup formats

[Nic James Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>]

"Davis Herring" <herring@lanl.gov> writes:

> <p class="bigbold">This is important!</p>
> <p class="fineprint">This is even more important.</p>
>
> Now that will be rendered in Emacs as
>
> This is important!
> This is even more important.
>
> with appropriate faces, and perhaps one more newline between the
> sentences.  Now kill from "imp..." to "...more" and what happens?  If the
> result (in the buffer, not the kill ring) is a new paragraph with a
> mixture of styles, we have a problem because we then cannot tell whether a
> style is applied to a paragraph or merely to every character in it.  If
> it's something else, we have a problem because the nearby text properties
> don't jive.  What am I missing?

What OpenOffice does when you cut the same text out is strip the style
from "important!" and leave the style on "This is even more".

If you yank it into a para with another style however the new style
wins.

That's what we want I think. It doesn't seem _that_ hard.

Or am I missing something?


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Nic Ferrier
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