In TP2, to communicate some part of todos with collaborators, I was able to copy a selection and paste it in AppleMail and it will retain bold, italic, etc. Now in TP3, when using Copy Displayed, everything is plain text flat and it’s a bit more complex to read. How come I can’t get the same result as is in TP3 as displayed? with bold, indent, etc? Is there an easy way to achieve that?
Thanks.
Hum… I guess I used to just copy the rich text from the text view onto the clipboard. I don’t remember the tradeoffs in version 2, but in version 3 they would be worse. I’m doing a number of custom layouts and drawing that would get lost on export, so even if I did again copy rich text to the clipboard it likely wouldn’t look right when pasted into another text view.
The two options I can think of are:
File > Print, and then save as PDF. That would make the list look just like in TaskPaper while still allowing others to select text.
There are a number of scripts that export TaskPaper into HTML. Doesn’t look exactly like in the editor, but presents the structure cleanly. I would go to the scripts page and try out the various “HTML” scripts: TaskPaper Extensions Wiki
If we
we get formatted public.rtf content in the clipboard, which seems to paste well into Mail.
You may find that you can speed up the process (opening the active file as PDF in Preview) by assigning a JavaScript for Automation script like this to a keystroke.
(See: How do I run/install a script?)
(() => {
'use strict';
// GENERIC FUNCTIONS --------------------------------------
// Left :: a -> Either a b
const Left = x => ({
type: 'Either',
Left: x
});
// Right :: b -> Either a b
const Right = x => ({
type: 'Either',
Right: x
});
// bindEither (>>=) :: Either a -> (a -> Either b) -> Either b
const bindEither = (m, mf) =>
m.Right !== undefined ? (
mf(m.Right)
) : m;
// enumFromTo :: Enum a => a -> a -> [a]
const enumFromTo = (m, n) =>
(typeof m !== 'number' ? (
enumFromToChar
) : enumFromToInt)
.apply(null, [m, n]);
// enumFromToInt :: Int -> Int -> [Int]
const enumFromToInt = (m, n) =>
n >= m ? Array.from({
length: Math.floor(n - m) + 1
}, (_, i) => m + i) : [];
// JXA FUNCTIONS ---------------------------------------------------------
// appProcMenuItem :: ApplicationProcess -> [String]
// -> Either String MenuItem
const appProcMenuItem = (proc, menuPath) => {
const lng = menuPath.length;
return lng > 1 ? (
Right((Application(proc.name())
.activate(),
menuPath.slice(1, -1)
.reduce(
(a, x) => a.menuItems[x].menus[x],
proc.menuBars[0]
.menus.byName(menuPath[0])
)
.menuItems[menuPath[lng - 1]]))
) : Left('Menu path needs at least two strings');
};
// MAIN ------------------------------------------------------------------
const
procs = Application('System Events')
.applicationProcesses.where({
name: 'TaskPaper'
}),
lrProc = procs.length ? (
Right(procs.at(0))
) : Left('TaskPaper not running');
return bindEither(
bindEither(
lrProc,
proc => proc.windows.length > 0 ? (
appProcMenuItem(proc, ['File', 'Print…'])
) : Left('No windows open in TaskPaper')
),
menuItem => {
// Effect --------------------------------------------------------
enumFromTo(1, 4)
.forEach(_ => menuItem.click());
// Value ---------------------------------------------------------
return bindEither(
bindEither(
lrProc,
proc => {
const sheets = proc.windows.at(0)
.sheets;
return sheets.length > 0 ? (
Right(sheets.at(0))
) : Left('Print dialog not open');
}
),
sheet => {
const btnPDF = sheet.menuButtons.byName('PDF');
return (
// Effect --------------------------------------------
btnPDF.click(),
// Value ---------------------------------------------
Right(
// Effect ----------------------------------------
(btnPDF.menus.at(0)
.menuItems.byName('Open PDF in Preview')
.click(),
// Value -------------------------------------
'Clicked (Open PDF in Preview)'
)
)
);
}
);
}
);
})();