Upgrade StoragePasting poetry in Notes V6.0+ ?
Thanks to everyone who worked hard on the Zotero update!
I was wondering if there was a special tip or perhaps special dialog for copying and pasting preformatted text (eg., poetry, code) into a note in the latest versions.
I would like to paste the content into the note without the additional line spacing/breaks between lines and while preserving tabs and other spacing. (If there is no current solution, then perhaps part of the solution could be inclusion of code markdown support?)
Currently, I will paste it in and then insert line breaks as shift+enter which insert a newline that is interpreted differently than those present during pasting. As I understand it from a markdown reference referred to by 'dstillman' in a separate thread [1][2], that is analogous to inserting a
Below is an example:
+-----------------------------------------+
| Current pasting behavior
+-----------------------------------------+
| Before me there were no created things,
|
| Only eterne, and I eternal last.
|
| All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
|
| These words in sombre color I beheld
|
| Written upon the summit of a gate;
+-----------------------------------------+
| Desired pasting behavior
+-----------------------------------------+
| Before me there were no created things,
| Only eterne, and I eternal last.
| All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
| These words in sombre color I beheld
| Written upon the summit of a gate;
+-----------------------------------------+
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[1] - https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/95227/zotero-6-note-editor-html-view
[2] - https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
I was wondering if there was a special tip or perhaps special dialog for copying and pasting preformatted text (eg., poetry, code) into a note in the latest versions.
I would like to paste the content into the note without the additional line spacing/breaks between lines and while preserving tabs and other spacing. (If there is no current solution, then perhaps part of the solution could be inclusion of code markdown support?)
Currently, I will paste it in and then insert line breaks as shift+enter which insert a newline that is interpreted differently than those present during pasting. As I understand it from a markdown reference referred to by 'dstillman' in a separate thread [1][2], that is analogous to inserting a
<br> tag (were it still to be backed by HTML).Below is an example:
+-----------------------------------------+
| Current pasting behavior
+-----------------------------------------+
| Before me there were no created things,
|
| Only eterne, and I eternal last.
|
| All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
|
| These words in sombre color I beheld
|
| Written upon the summit of a gate;
+-----------------------------------------+
| Desired pasting behavior
+-----------------------------------------+
| Before me there were no created things,
| Only eterne, and I eternal last.
| All hope abandon, ye who enter in!"
| These words in sombre color I beheld
| Written upon the summit of a gate;
+-----------------------------------------+
---
[1] - https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/95227/zotero-6-note-editor-html-view
[2] - https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
Monospaceformatting option if you want to preserve everything.Thank you for your help.
For those who find this post in the future, one can see more information on Monospace in this other forum post: https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/93156/where-to-find-the-notes-formatting-syntax