[PLUG] question on linux formatting tool

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Tue Feb 4 18:14:39 UTC 2025


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd5oomwEBb0

On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 4:52 AM Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at portlandia-it.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> --
> 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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