Re: Copy

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 04:53:11AM +0100, Nick Lamb wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 09:45:53PM -0700, Rajiv Vyas wrote:
> > I am having trouble copying and pasing data from Gnumeric to Abi Word. I am 
> > trying to do simple copy and paste. Is there is special way to do it?
>
> Gnumeric doesn't obey X conventions for cut, copy and paste.
>
> If you are running Gnumeric 1.0.x then you have no hope of getting it to
> interoperate properly with other software. If you are running 1.1.x
> then a partial fix has been applied, you should be able to Copy but 
> you probably won't be able to Paste.

That's a tad harsh.

The main limitation is that Gnumeric currently only imports/exports
the clipboard in 2 forms, xml and text.  I doubt either is what you
want with the table aware abiword.  We'll add rtf or xhtml shortly
to make this more palatable.