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From: hadeishi@husc4.harvard.edu (mitsuharu hadeishi)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Clipboard stuff
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Date: Sun, 5-Oct-86 14:42:57 EDT
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In article <93500041@convex> Dan Wallach writes:
>So, when are programs going to show up that use the clipboard?

	AmigaBasic, Textcraft 2.0, and TxEd are three programs I know
of that use the clipboard.  I've run two copies of AmigaBasic, cut
from one copy and pasted into another with no problems.  The only
problem is the lack of a data standard.  I assume that AmigaBasic, etc.
are using plain text;  I know there's a way to flag whether or not
you have plain text or image data in the clipboard.  To support the
programs already using the clipboard plain text should be maintained
as a standard clipboard data format.  Perhaps even console output
text (i.e. with underlining, tabs, italics, reverse video, and boldface)
should be included in an "extended plain text format."  This is to
maintain simplicity for simple text transfers.  However IFF should
be the standard for image transfer, complicated (hypertext) text
transfer, typeset stuff (is FTXT powerful enough for typesetting?
I.e., as much information as LaTeX?  With extensions it should be.
Could LaTeX be modified to use FTXT so we can start adhering to
some sort of standard?  And WHAT ABOUT MIXED TEXT AND GRAPHICS!!!)


				-Mitsu