Hi there. When pasting text from Pages to Lettera the text separators (lines) get copied as separate files. All the pastedGraphic files are just the line separators included in the file. The new file (saved as unitled) includes them correctly. Thanks!
Quick clarification the lines in the main file are broken… Instead of the line separator you get the (pastedGraphic)…
@azoro I assume you mean paragraph borders or did you insert a shape (line)?
Either way, they are a graphic which is why it’s doing what it’s doing. If you tried copying it all into TextEdit it would drop those lines. Markdown is really a text editor with support for some HTML objects like a HR (horizontal line) and images. It basically follows HTML in order for it to be used to create web pages. I believe that was the original intent and it has progressed from there.
Since it sees your lines as graphics, Lettera is at least trying to maintain the same view you had in Pages. As I mentioned earlier, TextEdit or other text editors wouldn’t even try.
Imho, your best bet would be to go to each graphic and insert the 3 dashes to get the horizontal line. Keep in mind, unlike a shape (line) in Pages, the HR will display across the entire width of the page so you couldn’t use it as a short line say over the page number for example.
I use to use Pages quite a bit for very lengthy docs which included lots of photos and some shapes but I’m loving Markdown and specifically Lettera and Bear because I spend more time creating than fiddling with all the features in Pages. i.e. wrap-around text
Some of the Pages features are very nice and I’ve had to give up on some things but in the end it’s worth it and other Markdown tools can read my MD files. It’s actually simplified things.
I’ve also found that the Lettera exports work much better than some of the other 3rd party apps. Callouts for instance get rendered very nicely whereas other tools may not even recognize them and if they do, they don’t look as good as the Lettera/Bear exports.
One issue I have with PDF’s is the lack of Page Breaks and page numbers. The latter I can make happen with PDFGear and free PDF editor that will merge PDF’s, add page #'s, and other footers and headers (except no border over the footer or below the header, yet). After seeing the ePub export, I’m leaning to that more now as the idea of a page doesn’t really exist even though I think I’d still like to be able to break on H1 & H2 headers.
Sorry, got to rambling on.
-tom
Thanks for the ramble Tom! I thought this was a wonk in the code but now I understand. Thanks again,