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Originally Posted by whpalmer4
Have you ever used TeX? You can get things pretty much the way you want them without too much trouble, and see just how perfect they could look with "just a little more effort" which ends up driving you mad when the nearness of perfection lures you to your misfortune with its Siren-like call...avert your gaze from your notes and step away from the keyboard before the madness takes you! :-)
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No, I can't say I've ever had the pleasure of working with TeX. But your experience sounds disturbingly familiar to getting complex CSS layouts to work in both standards-compliant browsers and that horrid plague on web developers: WinIE 6. :-)
So I think I know what you mean. And I fully respect the complexity involved, even if it's not always apparent to the end user. I'm only hoping that maybe the Omni people could take advantage of some of Apple's work in this area; but only they know what that entails. And if it's not practical, for whatever reason, it's not a big deal. I'm pretty happy with the current capabilities of the notes field. And it's not exactly like this feature is in high demand.
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Originally Posted by whpalmer4
I'd never noticed the table support in TextEdit prior to your post...now I'm going to be looking for excuses to make a few tables in the next week or so, thanks buddy :-)
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You're welcome. It's still pretty basic, but OS X's standard text view has some cool features. Too bad Apple hasn't publicized it more.
You know, the strange thing is if I create a table in TextEdit and then paste it into OmniFocus' note field, the text and table get copied over, but the table is oddly missing most of its styling. I can then right-click on the table to edit it (select Table… from the contextual menu, as can be done in TextEdit) and get the table editing palette, but all of the options are grayed out.
So apparently the OmniFocus note field at least recognizes tables but doesn't support pasted styles or editing options for them.
-Dennis