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Originally Posted by Quoth
Which actual program / application? Plain Text in some arbitrary program that CAN do styles is not notepad.
A wordprocessor (even Wordpad or MS Write) can do formatting. Modern ones also have styles.
A real text editor can't even display bold. It has no formatting at all other than line-wrap options. It won't even store bold.
Copy & paste to a text editor and only tabs, spaces, special spaces, line breaks remain. Copy & past that into something else, or save and there is NEVER any formatting like bold.
The only exception is if you do a Smart Paste in to a Word Processor with auto formatting on then
*text* becomes text
_text_ becomes text or text
/text/ becomes text
-text- might get strike out
*at margin might become a bullet
"text" to “text”
'text' to ‘text’
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Make sure on a Wordprocessor that Autoformat is off and you Paste Special unformatted text.
I disable most Autoformat in MS Word or LO Writer for "as you write" as well as Autocorrect.
If you type "some text" and it is automagically “some text” then you are using a wordprocessor, not a text editor like notepad! So called smart quotes. As an aside, almost all wordprocessors do '60s as ‘60s instead of ’60s. Or 'tis as ‘tis it should be ’tis. They all use ’ and ” for feet & inches or degrees or time. Those should be ′ and ″, the prime and double prime. An italic straight quote and double quote looks similar ' ", but it's a specific character.
Actual straight quotes are for programming and originate with typewriters. There is usage for ' to break up some non-English words or sometimes show syllables.
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Thanks for your speedy reply.
I use a normal Text Doc, Notepad, if you will [see attachment], and as you said it strips all those styles, normally. But sometimes it doesn't, for example if I copy all and there is a picture too, the text below the picture appears bold on my reader eventually.
Funny fact: the very same text document appears bold free on one of my e reader, however, the other one [also a Pocket Book] shows those bold styles.
Please advise if there is something I can sort out this issue.
Gratefully
Robert