[PLUG] question on linux formatting tool

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at portlandia-it.com
Tue Feb 4 12:52:04 UTC 2025


Check your chart again, Russell, you aren't even using it.  Otherwise you would have written

BLAND TEXT IS THE BEST TEXT. ;-)

LOL

Teletypes.  Gotta love 'em!

Ted

-----Original Message-----
From: PLUG <plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org> On Behalf Of Russell Senior
Sent: Monday, February 3, 2025 9:18 PM
To: Portland Linux/Unix Group <plug at lists.pdxlinux.org>
Subject: Re: [PLUG] question on linux formatting tool

Bland text is the best text. ;-)

PS: ASCII-1963 Foreverz!

https://www.sensitiveresearch.com/Archive/CharCodeHist/X3.4-1963/page5.JPG

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Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net

On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 4:52 PM American Citizen <website.reader3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Occasionally I post to Facebook, but everytime I drop in text, for 
> example, from LibreOffice, instantly the bold formats, colored text, 
> are all removed and bland text results. Does anyone know what linux 
> UTF-8 editor will work, such that edited text can be copied from the 
> mouse and dropped straight into the Facebook post?
>
> I have tried some but so far have failed 100%. The only one which 
> worked was some online tool, and I had to copy the converted text. 
> Needless to say, I don't want my information being copied by some 
> online site and sent to digital archives around the world.
>
> Does anyone know an editor which will work? I tried SeaMonkey, but 
> dropping the formatted text did not work, everything format was 
> cleansed and only bland text was left in the post.
>
>



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