Re: Copying from Word into TRichView?

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Lauchlan M

Posted: 04/22/2004 1:49:44

> > (i) The default behaviour of TRichView seems to be to make 'bold' go to

> the

> > colour blue in the destination document and 'italic' to red, which seems

> > bit strange to me, and it loses all the size information. Is this

> behaviour

> > configurable? I would much rather it went to the original font, font

size,

> > bolding, italicising etc as defined in the original document than to

bold

> +

> > blue for bold, italic + red for italic, etc.

> These problems are because of initial property settings.

> Right click TRichViewEdit in Delphi, choose "Settings" in the context

menu,

> and select "Allow adding styles dynamically".

> This will solve both the problem with saving/opening documents and strange

> fonts when pasting from MS Word.

> (since version 1.8, "Allow adding styles dynamically" option is set

> automatically for new trichview components placed on form. But projects

> started with old version still need to be adjusted).

> It was not mentioned, but some RTF documents may be aligned wrong if

pasted

> documents contain tab characters: in the trial version, tabs are replaced

> with several spaces.

> Newer version (currently available for registered users) support tabs, a

> demo will be updated on the site later this month.

Thanks!

I made this change, and now it works much better!

I do have one issue though: I copied the following text from Word:

TAX INVOICE - Contract Software Development

Lauchlan Mackinnon (ABN: 60 894 696 762)

Mail: <Mail address removed>

Mobile <Mobile removed> Email <Email address removed>

Reference: 42

Terms: 7 Days Net

(if the formatting doesn't come through,

the top line was heading 1 with Arial 16 Bold,

the second line was heading 2 with Arial Bold 14 italic,

then I had selected the next two lines and did Format | Borders and Shading

and put a 1 1/2 point line underneath it,

and the next line had a pattern of 10% grey applied to the line.)

The problem is that the two lines that were selected and had a line put

underneath it come through with a 1 1/2 point line under _both_ lines of

text instead of just under the bottom one.

Another error in the formatting after pasting into the RichView edit is that

text like

To: <Company name>

<ABN>

(the formatting is that each of these lines is tabbed once. The first line

has "To:" before the tab.

where everything except the "To:" is tabbed once pastes with the company

name indented/tabbed differently to the other lines.

Are these errors in TRichView that are likely to be fixed in a future

version, or is this something to do with Word's .doc format or some other MS

issue? I suspect the latter, because WPTools makes it just one 1 1/2 point

line under the two lines, as in the original Word document and copies the

"To:" lines with the same indentation . . .

I guess this second problem is the one you mentioned

but some RTF documents may be aligned wrong if pasted

> documents contain tab characters: in the trial version, tabs are replaced

> with several spaces.

Are the new Tab features you talked about in the forthcoming version likely

to bear on this issue?

> > (iii) I had been using EndNote with Word, and endnote put hidden markers

> in

> Endnotes are not supported. May be your endnote was inserted in some

special

> way?

> It's not configurable, but I believe it would be very easy to add an

option

> to insert footnotes/endnotes in text.

I meant using the program EndNote, www.endnote.com, not using EndNote

features of Word. I am concerned with the markers EndNote places in the

document rather than the actual EndNotes themselves. Actually, to be honest,

I think I prefer the way TRichView does this already, as there is no point

in the hidden markers becoming part of the text, particularly as they server

no functional role as the EndNote Word plugin presumably would not work

within TRichView.

Thanks!

Lauchlan M