> On 14 Sep 2024, at 07:39, Jan David Hauck via Bibdesk-users 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know if there’s a way to create a template that preserves italics 
> formatting, but none of the other rich text attributes? 
> Not directly related to BibDesk functionalities, but it feels like this is a 
> use case that a lot of BibDesk users might have encountered:   
> When using formatted templates (for copy paste or drag and drop) I frequently 
> wish there was an intermediate format between rtf and txt that keeps italics 
> but nothing else.  Because for bibliographic entries, in most styles italics 
> are important for Journal names or Book titles.  
> Rtf templates preserve italics but also all the other stuff like font, font 
> size, etc. – and depending on where you paste them (like an email or a 
> document that has a different font than your template) you have to come up 
> with workarounds like “match destination formatting” or pasting as plain text 
> and manually re-adding italics. So I was wondering is there perhaps a way 
> (maybe some tool or script) that someone has come up with to strip copied 
> rich text of everything but the italics formatting?  
> Any ideas or suggestions much appreciated!  
> Jan
> 

You can write (or rewrite) an existing template using the formatting you want. 
See the Wiki for details. And when a template tag may return formatted text 
that you may not want, you could add a component to the key path (like 
’.string’) to get plain text.

Christiaan

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