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Might anybody have a clue why, in 1st page when copying and pasting from
NotePad to a 1st Page in progress,

the dashes and em-dashed are converted to question marks?
There must be a configuration which prevents this?

Thanks in advance.

"lostinspace" <> wrote in message
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> Might anybody have a clue why, in 1st page when copying and pasting from
> NotePad to a 1st Page in progress,

1st page?

> the dashes and em-dashed are converted to question marks?
> There must be a configuration which prevents this?

The dashes in the text you're copying are problably from a part of the
font-set, which is not supported by the place you're copying it too.

Try converting your text to MSDOS ASCII, before working with it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Woolly Mittens" <>
Newsgroups: alt.html
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: 1st page


>
> "lostinspace" <> wrote in message
> ...
> > Might anybody have a clue why, in 1st page when copying and pasting from
> > NotePad to a 1st Page in progress,
>
> 1st page?
>
> > the dashes and em-dashed are converted to question marks?
> > There must be a configuration which prevents this?
>
> The dashes in the text you're copying are problably from a part of the
> font-set, which is not supported by the place you're copying it too.
>
> Try converting your text to MSDOS ASCII, before working with it.
>
>

Thanks for your help.

1st Page 2000
http://www.evrsoft.com/

However, if you don't use 1st Page, than your not going to be able to
assist.
For four years, I was using the frowned-upon FP and never had this problem
when cutting and pasting from NotePad and into the FP html pages.
Apprx. six weeks ago, I decided to try an alternative software to use as my
html editor (Not sure how long I've had 1st Page and wasn't using it.)

a simple "dash" in NotePad requires no font settings that I'm aware of ?
EX; tongue-in-cheek would be replaced (upon pasting) as; tongue?in?cheek ,
requiring me to go back editing and spell checking text of which I've
previously done so.

This little glitch a real PITA as the text I work with contains many uses
of dashes and em-dashes repeatedly.
I'm looking for a solution in an attempt to stay committed away from FP,
however the FP has no real criteria as I may use that as a simple text
editor and still retain the copy and pasting with no transition loss or even
added enhancements.

BTW, I've made an inquiry in the 1st Page forum, without a successful reply.
Searched their archives without success. To add misery, 1st page comes
without any significant help files.

lostinspace <> wrote in
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Woolly Mittens" <>
> Newsgroups: alt.html
> Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 4:27 PM
> Subject: Re: 1st page
>
>
>>
>> "lostinspace" <> wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Might anybody have a clue why, in 1st page when copying and pasting
>>> from NotePad to a 1st Page in progress,
>>
>> 1st page?
>>
>>> the dashes and em-dashed are converted to question marks?
>>> There must be a configuration which prevents this?
>>
>> The dashes in the text you're copying are problably from a part of
>> the font-set, which is not supported by the place you're copying it
>> too.
>>
>> Try converting your text to MSDOS ASCII, before working with it.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> 1st Page 2000
> http://www.evrsoft.com/
>
> However, if you don't use 1st Page, than your not going to be able to
> assist.
> For four years, I was using the frowned-upon FP and never had this
> problem when cutting and pasting from NotePad and into the FP html
> pages. Apprx. six weeks ago, I decided to try an alternative
> software to use as my html editor (Not sure how long I've had 1st
> Page and wasn't using it.)
>
> a simple "dash" in NotePad requires no font settings that I'm aware
> of ? EX; tongue-in-cheek would be replaced (upon pasting) as;
> tongue?in?cheek , requiring me to go back editing and spell checking
> text of which I've previously done so.
>
> This little glitch a real PITA as the text I work with contains many
> uses of dashes and em-dashes repeatedly.

I wasn't going to be picky about the dashes...

> I'm looking for a solution in an attempt to stay committed away from
> FP, however the FP has no real criteria as I may use that as a simple
> text editor and still retain the copy and pasting with no transition
> loss or even added enhancements.
>
> This little glitch a real PITA as the text I work with contains many
> uses of dashes and em-dashes repeatedly.

.... but, as you've specifically raised ems and ens: the horizontal lines in
"tongue-in-cheek" aren't dashes, they're hyphens. Are you putting in hyphens
or something else for the ems, such as — or &mdash; ?

I can't seem to replicate the problem although, since it's a while since I
installed 1st page and haven't used it recently, I may have changed a
default that meant the problem didn't appear. Are you simply copying from
Notepad and then pasting into the "Edit F11" view?

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