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Date:	Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:49:01 -0700
From:	"Steven Levine" <steve53@earthlink.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HTML - related question (might also apply to .PDF ?)

In <402847.35460.qm@web81410.mail.mud.yahoo.com>, on 08/26/07
at 09:45 AM, J R FOX said:

Hi,

>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*,

This is technically more difficult that it would appear. These days with
CSS and XML and such, the formatting instructions are often not with the
text.

>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 ?

It's feasible. You might try experimenting with opening URLs in OOorg's
Text Writer. This is basically an import function. Once you get the
document into Writer, you can do anything you want with it.

Steven

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