Copying and pasting to forums. Charts, plain text, URLs, html. This article is mostly about copying pages, or parts or pages, to forums, bulletin boards, email lists, and newsgroups.

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Copying and pasting to forums. Charts, plain text, URLs, html. This article is mostly about copying pages, or parts or pages, to forums, bulletin boards, email lists, and newsgroups.
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*Introduction, and related web pages.
*Copying charts. Pasting into forums.
*Copying and Pasting plain text.
*Copying and Pasting HTML.
*Copying and Pasting URLs.
*Copying and Pasting quick links.

*Drug War charts, and more.

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Introduction, and related web pages. [TopLink]

It is easy to copy and paste. The site pages, articles, and charts are in the PUBLIC DOMAIN. Not copyrighted and no rights reserved. Feel free to copy any part of a page, or whole pages. Whether for commercial or non-commercial use. Copy any of the pages, articles, or charts anywhere as plain text, as web page html, as email, etc.. Copy to or from email, forums, web pages, charts, email lists, newsgroups, bulletin boards, articles, etc..

For some essential related info, see also:

*Steal this website. World Drug War Website. Various ways to copy pages, or parts of pages, to anywhere. "Save as" a complete web page, HTML only, an archive, or as text. Offline browser how-to. How-to and tips about saving pages, relative links, absolute links, quick links, TOC (Table of Contents) links, images, site maps, mirror pages, offline books with indexes, passing on folders, pasting pages into email, etc..
http://corporatism.tripod.com/steal.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/steal.htm

*NEWS sites worldwide. Commercial, nonprofit, or independent media. Many links to progressive news archive sites, including drug war press archive sites. Various ways to copy or pass on stuff. Freely passing on public domain, non-copyrighted, material. Posting copyrighted press and media articles on non-profit websites. Fair Use and Public Domain laws.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/fairuse.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/fairuse.htm

*WEB PAGES, Instantly. Just add text and stir! Take messages, email, articles, and info to the next clickable level. To the web. For free! Create web pages easily with free easy-to-use web page editors, and host the web pages for free on many free web hosts. Free domain names. Easy uploading of web pages. Fight the drug war in style.
http://corporatism.tripod.com/webpages.htm and
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/webpages.htm

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Copying charts. Pasting into forums. [TopLink]

Some tags:

[pre]
[code]
<font face=Courier New>

These allow the charts to be pasted into various message boards!

Here is why:

UBBThreads BOARD TIP: The "pre" tag for UBBThread-enabled message boards. The chart columns will line up because the tag will force the use of a fixed-width font. From the first tag up until the closing tag.
[pre] [/pre]

UBB BOARD TIP: The "code" tag for UBB-enabled message boards. The chart columns will line up because the tag will force the use of a fixed-width font. From the first tag up until the closing tag.
[code] [/code]

HTML MESSAGE BOARD TIP: The basic html code to get a fixed-width (monospace or monotype) Courier font. The chart columns will line up because the tag will force the use of a fixed-width font. From the first tag up until the closing tag.
<font face=Courier New> </font>

If the particular board allows both UBB tags and HTML tags, choose the HTML tag. It will produce a larger easier-to-read text size in the chart than the "code" tag will.

In UBBThreads boards choose the "pre" tag over the "code" tag. It produces larger text.

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Copying and Pasting plain text. [TopLink]

SUMMARY: The best way to copy plain text is to select-highlight the desired text within MS Internet Explorer (MSIE) browser and then copy it. Paste it directly anywhere, or to Notepad. This method does not change word-wrap and line breaks. Netscape browser copies of plain text messes up plain text copies. So does using "save as" and choosing "text file" in MSIE. When further editing is necessary, it is easy to edit text in NotePad.

Feel free to mirror, copy, edit, rewrite, spin, plagiarize, forward, paste, post, any or all parts of the web pages, anywhere, whether for commercial or non-profit use. Any part of these web pages, charts, link lists, web address URLs, etc. may be copied and pasted directly into email, forums, web pages, etc.. Parts of pages, and whole pages, have been copied almost everywhere.

To get good, plain text, copies, first highlight the parts desired. Do this in MS Internet Explorer (MSIE) by left-clicking and holding down the mouse at the beginning of the desired text. Then (while continuing to press and hold down left-click button) select and highlight text by dragging over it with the pressed-down mouse. Then use the copy and paste commands from the edit menu of MSIE. This method keeps blank lines and word wrapping intact. Don't use the "save as text" method from the file menu of MSIE. This method often deletes blank lines, and messes up the word wrapping.

Notepad, if necessary, is a great free scratch pad for pasting in plain text, and then editing it. Notepad comes free with MS Windows operating system. Go to Start Menu, then Programs, then Accessories, then click NotePad.

Copy the full URLs too. Many email programs, list archives, and message boards automatically convert full URLs (web addresses) into CLICKABLE links, as long as the full URL (starting with http:// ) is visible, and is on one line. URLs that are longer than 64 characters (in some places longer or shorter) will often wrap to 2 lines, and thus the URL may not end up being correctly clickable. Some email software will word-wrap lines longer than 46 characters. So the shorter the URL the more places that a URL will be made clickable.

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Copying and Pasting HTML. [TopLink]

For copying and pasting html into forums that accept html, click "source" in the view menu of MSIE. Copy the parts that you want to put in your messages.

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Copying and Pasting URLs. [TopLink]

The clickable, fully-exposed, URLs (starting with http:// ) that are used as web address link names on these website pages will almost always work correctly when clicked.

Sometimes they will not be clickable after they are copied and pasted to some forums and email lists. Not all forums and email software automatically convert URLs to clickable links. Neither do all email list archives. Those that do often can not get some longer URLs to click correctly. This often occurs when the URL is longer than the column width. In those cases the URL is wrapped to 2 lines, and often will not be correctly clickable.

The link names that are NOT exposed URL web addresses will click correctly on the original website pages. Some internal web page navigation links, such as table of content headings and "TopLink," may not work correctly in partial html copies to message boards, in partial html copies to IndyMedia.org news sites, and in other partial html copies to forums. That is because they are internal navigation links that often require more of the web page than has been copied and pasted elsewhere. One can't navigate to a part of the page that wasn't copied.

So, if the non-exposed-URL link names won't get you anywhere, then click the fully-exposed URL link names! Or if you are reading a plain text copy, then go to the original location of the website pages. That is where all links, whether the link name is in the form of a URL or not, are correctly clickable!

The original website pages get the added bonus of images (unlike most messages in forums, boards, email, etc.). Go to the site map or home page or quick links page to find more complete clickable lists of the original website pages.

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Copying and Pasting Quick Links. [TopLink]

Quick Links (the short relative links) will not usually work when the html is pasted elsewhere. They only work if they are part of a whole website containing all the linked pages.

So, one has to use the full-URL (absolute URL) quick links for pasting html elsewhere.

Feel free to add the full-URL Quick Links boxes anywhere. For example; try pasting it as html to the bottom of drug-war-related articles posted at IndyMedia.org, Yahooka.com, and other news and discussion forums that accept html.

The QUICK LINKS boxes on the web pages use relative links. So if you want to paste html from a web page into forums that allow html pastes, then delete the html for the short-URL (relative links) quick links boxes found in the web page. Delete all this because the short-URL (relative) quick links will not work when the html is pasted into forums.

If you want to add working quick-links boxes to forum messages, or wherever, then use the html from the full-URL (absolute-URL) quick-links page. Feel free to use any of the html from that full-URL page in html messages posted at Indymedia.org and other forums that accept html in messages. The full-URL quick links boxes will work correctly anywhere their html can be pasted into and used. Full-URL (absolute-URL) quick-links page:
http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/quickfull.htm and
http://corporatism.tripod.com/quickfull.htm

It is possible to convert the relative-URL quick links to absolute URLs by copying them into an intermediate program such as Yahoo mail's "color and graphics" compose mail page, or into FrontPage, or other HTML editor. Just select and copy the quick links box with MSIE. Then paste into the intermediate program. Then copy from the resulting email after mailing it to yourself. Or copy from the resulting web page you created with the HTML program.

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Drug War charts, and more. [TopLink]