Anonimo discovered this one. If you select text in a previous post, you can drag and drop it to the answer box. Stick a > in front of each paragraph to make it a quote. It seems to work as long as both the previous post and the answer box are visible in the same screen. In fact, I was able to grab some text from the web site itself:
>Type your message using the form below. When finished, you can optionally preview your post by clicking on the "Preview" tab. Otherwise, click the "Post Message" button to submit your message immediately.
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nutraxfornerves
Everything below is a straight drag & drop.
Anonimo discovered this one. If you select text in a previous post, you can drag and drop it to the answer box. Stick a > in front of each paragraph to make it a quote. It seems to work as long as both the previous post and the answer box are visible in the same screen. In fact, I was able to grab some text from the web site itself:
Type your message using the form below. When finished, you can optionally preview your post by clicking on the "Preview" tab. Otherwise, click the "Post Message" button to submit your message immediately
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shilgia
That's pretty cool. You can even do it with anything else on the screen. Here's the blurb on the side:
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bad_hiker
Seems to work even dragging the ads inside the answer box....
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askar
You can also open two windows and drag a text from another website:
from this page:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_et_translitt%C3%A9ration
> >La translittération est l'opération qui consiste à substituer à chaque graphème d'un système d'écriture un graphème ou un groupe de graphèmes d'un autre système, indépendamment de la prononciation. Autrement dit, c'est l'écriture d'un mot ou d'un texte écrit avec un système, dans un autre système d'écriture. La translittération vise à être sans perte, de sorte qu'il devrait idéalement toujours être possible, en connaissant les règles de translittération, de reconstituer le texte original à partir de la translittération. Les deux systèmes d'écriture devraient donc être équipotents : une translittération ne peut être ambiguë et devrait être bijective. Pour atteindre cet objectif, les systèmes de translittération définissent souvent des conventions complexes pour traiter les graphèmes de l'écriture d'origine qui n'ont pas de correspondance évidente dans l'écriture d'arrivée.
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askar
Well, I've discovered that you can do it from any webpage or Word document. It works between two Word documents. It works on the other forums also. It is just a quicker way to make a Copy/Paste, so nothing new here.
Edited by: Askar
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northamerican
My thanks to anonimo, for discovering what could be done, and to nutrax for reporting it. I used the > in my "problem post" thread, below, to quote something Loscar said.
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anonimo
My thanks to anonimo, for discovering what could be done, and to nutrax for reporting it. I used the > in my "problem post" thread, below, to quote something Loscar said.
Yes, on Macs, at least, it's called "drag and drop" and is widely implemented. Perhaps we could have done this on TT3. Who knows? The "problems" of TT4 have piqued some of us into exploring work-arounds.
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