<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Joe Zeff <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joe@zeff.us">joe@zeff.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 06/02/2011 05:30 PM, John Ghormley KJ4UFG wrote:<br>
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Possibly a good idea, but I have a question. Â What does one gain from<br>
importing from an open source format that makes it better than a simpler<br>
copy and paste, if one doesn't import styles?<br>
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If you're importing a file that somebody sent you there's no need to wait for it to open up in whatever word processor you'd use to edit it. Â If you're importing multiple files the time adds up rapidly. Â And, even if it's only one file it's less steps you have to take. Â For that matter, why do you find copy and paste better?<div>
<div></div></div></blockquote><div><br>First, I NEVER import anything I have not read. Therefore, I will open any document from a writer in either LibreOffice or Google Docs to read it before I pull it into my Scribus .sla file. Frequently, there may be several days between receiving the contributions for multiple writers and when I actually compose the issue. But, I generally read the contributions upon receiving them in email. <br>
<br>So, to answer your question, I like copy and paste because I can import the entire document to the Story Editor with the sequence, Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, and Ctrl-V. Doesn't get much faster than that. And, since most of my contributors are Windoze users, their contributions are in Word .doc format or .rtf or even .txt. I can copy and paste from ANY format with exactly the same keystroke sequence. So, I like copy and paste as opposed to importing for that reason. It may be that it fits my work habits better than trying to locate filenames in a list and then deal with the import results.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div>-- <br></div></blockquote></div>John Ghormley KJ4UFG<br>Editor, SERA <i>Repeater Journal</i><br>
Walkertown, NCÂ USA<br><a href="mailto:editor@sera.org" target="_blank">editor@sera.org</a><br><br>