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Originally Posted by Authorspeak
I am not sure if the developers read or monitor these posts but two features that I would like to see in an updated version of Sigil is a better text editor functionality with the option to choose different fonts, their size, and even allow us to change text different colors. Additionally when I am writing my material I sometimes copy and paste from word, notepad, and other sources and when I paste it into sigil it keeps the exact same font and style formatting without giving us the option to keep the style formatting or just let us paste the plain text. This especially has been getting annoying for me and I don't know if others have had this problem; or a solution would be nice.
What do you all think, am I reaching too far?
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Hi Authorspeak. I can completely understand why you want that capability to be in Sigil, but I think it is a very difficult programming problem. Remember that Sigil is a cross-platform application that runs on Windows, Mac and Linux, all of which have different cut and paste behaviours.
Not only that, even if you could keep the formatting, there is no way for Sigil to guess at semantic content (is this bit of text bold and large because it is a title? what level of title? etc) so you would have to patch up the styles by hand anyway.