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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Hi Francois,

> I just pushed on the svn trunk a commit affecting the behavior of
> the 'default" copy/paste. Until now, it was merged with the "to/from
> texmacs" copy/paste behaviour.

I found the new mechanism very convenient for starting a new proposal,
for which I had to copy and paste between Open Office and TeXmacs.
In that case, Open Office provides us with Html.

However, there were several minor but annoying problems (under MacOS):

  * I systematically get irrelevant low level comments before and
    after the actual copied and pasted text. E.g., something like

        Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000167 EndHTML:0000002299 
StartFragment:0000000457 EndFragment:0000002283

  * In particular, it is impossible to copy very simple ASCII text,
    such as a single word, the title string of a section without markup,
    or an email address.  I always obtain a lot of cruft along with
    the actual string, as well as formatting details.

  * Certain French characters are handled incorrectly.
    For instance, the à is turned into an A with a breve accent.

Apart from these things, the new feature is great.
Copy and paste from a browser is awesome.
I would like to understand better how it works.

Best wishes, --Joris