Copy-pasting without transferring format

[Tim]

On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 11:11 -0400, Oliver Ruebenacker wrote:
> Currently, when I copy-paste (between Firefox, LibreOffice, etc),
> formatting like font, font size and font attributes get also copied
> and pasted. But I am looking for a way to copy-paste such that the
> format of the original text is discarded and instead the format of the
> target document is used, as if I had typed the text on the keyboard.

I've pasted through plain text editors, to do the same thing.  They're a
much smaller application to run than a huge, and buggy, web browser.

But when pasting into something like a word processor, it's advantageous
to learn how to use its own styling editor, rather than using it like a
glorified electric typewriter.  Once you've defined its default body
text format, it's very easy to clear any other styling, and/or apply
your own preferred style to slabs of text.  It becomes a one- or
two-click operation to normalise a document, rather than attacking
pieces of it all over the place.  And much less of a nuisance than
copying and pasting, twice, through something else in the middle.

I do wish OpenOffice/LibreOffice had an easy copy and paste of
style/formatting option, though.  So you could simply re-apply a style
from another paragraph, for those occasions when it'd be quicker to work
that way.  Darned if I can find one.

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