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File export/import, Clipboard

File - import TXT is only available if a WS (Wordstar) or Write&Set TXT file has been loaded; The menu item File - export TXT/HTML is also available when running normal text files. When selecting File - export, you will get a file dialog where you can select between the file types TXT and HTML. With TXT, you will get a second dialog window where you can change some detail behaviour when converting WS or W&S specific commands like toggles, dot commands and special characters to pure ASCII text. The "snow char" setting is obsolete if you have got a normal text file.

If a block is currently selected, only the block gets converted, otherwise the whole text.

When selecting HTML, you don't get a second dialog window. The HTML converion is quite simple. Toggles for bold, underline and italic, "umlauts" and other special characters are converted and chapter headings are enumerated and converted to default HTML style.

To insert other HTML commands to the generated HTML file, you are allowed to place these commands into WS and W&S comment lines:

..<HTML command> <HTML command>

It is necessary that the < character (begin of HTML command) follows the two dots directly, othwerwise the whole line gets ignored.
Sample:

..<a href="A"> A </a>
..<a href="B"> B </a>
..<a href="C"> C </a>
My addressbook
..<a name="A"></a>
Aaron, Telephone: 555-555555
..<a name="B"></a>

The HTML file will begin with a link list A, B, C. Use this commands to get your text-based address list to an HTML file, e.g. for your HTML-enabled mobile phone.

For more sophisticated HTML files, please use Hypermake (www.hypermake.com).

WSedit Clipboard

If you copy text from WSedit into the Clipboard (press Ctrl-Ins), WSedit copies the markded text to the clipboard three times and the corresponding program decides which format to use:

With RTF clipboard export, you can transfer not only simple text to arbitrary Windows wordprocessors like Word. Also all relevant printer characters (^B, ^S, ^Y, ^T, ^V, ^K, ^@) are converted and every kind of indention (via soft spaces) is transferred correctly; even tables with soft spaces are working. But dot commands are not converted, only .TS Tab stretch is interpretated.

RTF clipboard support is only supported in the export direction (from WSedit to another application).

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