I think the easiest way is to use this firefox exension "CopyPlainText" which copies text without the formatting but with line breaks. https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.php?id=134 Ankit On 6/16/05, Jon Shorie <jshorie@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Every day, I browse through some news articles and highlight text in the > article and paste it into Openoffice. > > This way I can take a quick look at an article while compiling programs or > other long operations without going through the trouble to find the article > again. > > If I use firefox, the article will copy with all of its html formatting. What > I want is just the text with some line breaks where they are in the original > article. I get around this by first pasting the text into kwrite and the > recopying it and pasting it into the openoffice document. > > With the konqueror in FC3 and older, I could just highlight the web page and > paste it into the openoffice document and it would come in perfectly as just > text with no enhanced formatting. > > When I tried it this morning in FC4 and konqueror 3.4.0-5 which is the version > bundled with FC4, it does not grab the line breaks any more. > > Does anybody have a simple way to accomplish this the way that it used to work > in fc3? > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > -- Ankit Jain www.ieor.berkeley.edu/~ankit
