Enhancement Request: Copy text alignment between html longtext columns

[ownedbycats]

Calibre 6.14.1

When copying some text from the default 'comments' column to a custom #seriesdescription, formatting (italics, bolds) is copied but not text alignment (I use justified). If there aren't any reasons against it, would like the text alignment also copied.

Thanks in advance.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Changing the component for this bug.

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[Charles Haley (cbhaley)]

Apparently Qt sets the alignment of pasted text to the alignment of the current paragraph. I don't know how to change this, or even if it should be changed.

To demonstrate, copy the justified text. Go to the destination field, type 1 character, change the alignment of that character to justified, then paste the text. The result will be justified. Pasting it again is also justified.

Again, and apparently, the alignment of an empty field is "left". I have no idea how to change that.

[Charles Haley (cbhaley)]

PS: this is all done in gui2.comments_editor.py.

[Kovid Goyal (kovid)]

Fixed in branch master. The fix will be in the next release. calibre is usually released every alternate Friday.

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