As a first CMS project I am creating a multilingual site. I have the English content formatted and am copying the translated material from MS Word. When copying and pasting from the Word document (or an html based on the Word) code gets pasted along with the text (e.g font-family etc.). I have found that using the "Copy as Plain Text" button gets rid of the code and preserves the diacritics.

Is there a better way (i.e. using a variation of the key board shortcut CTRL-V for pasting "plain text")? Or any other workflow suggestions for source material in various languages (specially languages that use a lot of diacritics) that is in Word? I have a significant amount of content in several languages and find using the "Copy as Plain Text" button really slow because I am accustomed to CTRL-V.

By the way just wanted to say thanks to all the Drupal contributors, overall I am finding the system and documentation quite good!

Thanks.
Pete

Drupal 6.4
FCKeditor 6.x-1.3-rc1

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wwalc’s picture

wwalc commented

There is a "PasteWord" in FCKeditor toolbar which should be used to paste content from Word and keep formatting.

You may overwrite the default behavior and force pasting as plain text (using CTRL-V) with:
FCKConfig.ForcePasteAsPlainText = false ;
you may also want to change:
FCKConfig.AutoDetectPasteFromWord = true ; // IE only.

Overwrite the default values from fckconfig.js in fckeditor.config.js.

More options can be found here: http://docs.fckeditor.net/FCKeditor_2.x/Developers_Guide/Configuration/C...

Jorrit’s picture

Jorrit commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closed because of inactivity.