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barro350 · 09-25-2020, 03:32 AM

Platform: Desktop, Windows 10

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I'm trying Calibre 5.0, and the new highlighting feature feels really great!

By the way, I've noticed that, after upgrading to v5.0, copying a text segment in the Calibre viewer does not work as it did in v4.xx.

Suppose a source xhtml file of an ePub file contains something like `<span class="orange">emphasized</span> text`. In Calibre v4.xx copying this text segment would store it in the clipboard as the rich text format so that pasting it to other applications preserves the formatting. e.g., I could paste the text to get `<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">emphasized</span> text` in an HTML editor.

However, in Calibre v5.0, it seems that copy-and-paste always works in the plain-text mode and any formatting information is erased.

Is the removal of this feature intended? Or, is there a setting to tweak this behavior?

09-25-2020, 03:32 AM	#1
barro350 Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Sep 2020 Device: Desktop (Windows)	Calibre 5.0: Copying HTML/rich text in ePub doesn't work anymore Platform: Desktop, Windows 10 --- I'm trying Calibre 5.0, and the new highlighting feature feels really great! By the way, I've noticed that, after upgrading to v5.0, copying a text segment in the Calibre viewer does not work as it did in v4.xx. Suppose a source xhtml file of an ePub file contains something like `<span class="orange">emphasized</span> text`. In Calibre v4.xx copying this text segment would store it in the clipboard as the rich text format so that pasting it to other applications preserves the formatting. e.g., I could paste the text to get `<span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">emphasized</span> text` in an HTML editor. However, in Calibre v5.0, it seems that copy-and-paste always works in the plain-text mode and any formatting information is erased. Is the removal of this feature intended? Or, is there a setting to tweak this behavior?