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Quirk in TextFX

2007-06-15
2012-11-14
  • Greg Bullock

    Greg Bullock - 2007-06-15

    Highlight the from the beginning of the following line

    "abc" def

    through second semicolon ';' up to the space, but not including the space, then choose TextFX: TextFX Convert: Strip HTML tags table tabs. The line gets converted to

    "abc" def

    That is, the trailing " does not get converted.  Same results with "Strip HTML tags table nontabs." 

    This quirk most often affects me with a line like

    "abc"

    (with no trailing space).  The line is easy to highlight entirely by pressing <Home><Ctrl-End>, but then again TextFX: TextFX Convert: Strip HTML tags table tabs misses the closing &quot; character.

    Regards.
    Greg

     
    • Greg Bullock

      Greg Bullock - 2007-06-15

      Whoops!  My HTML entities got converted to plain text.  Here's a second attempt to get the post right:

      Highlight from the beginning of the following line

      &amp;quot;abc&amp;quot; def

      through the second semicolon ';' up to the space, but not including the space, then choose TextFX: TextFX Convert: Strip HTML tags table tabs. The line gets converted to

      "abc&amp;quot; def

      That is, the trailing &amp;quot; does not get converted.  Same results with "Strip HTML tags table nontabs." 

      This quirk most often affects me with a line like

      &amp;quot;abc&amp;quot;

      (with no trailing space).  The line is easy to highlight entirely by pressing <Home><Ctrl-End>, but then again TextFX: TextFX Convert: Strip HTML tags table tabs misses the closing &amp;quot; character.

      Regards.
      Greg

       
      • Greg Bullock

        Greg Bullock - 2007-06-15

        Oh, dear!  That time, the HTML entities did *not* get converted to plain text.  Sorry.  I don't understand the rules of this SourceForge message editor.

        To decode my message, if you can mentally convert all the ampersand_amp_semicolon sequences to ampersands '&' in my second post, and leave all other characters as literals, then you'll get my meaning.

        Greg