Copying Text From CDF Output Cells
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- From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca>
- Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:23:26 -0400 (EDT)
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Hello everyone, In creating CDF assignments for my students, I often include modestly sized tables of data that they must work with. It is natural for students to copy data to a spreadsheet for analysis or to a word processor for drafting a report. The trouble is, the Copy menu item under the Edit menu in CDFs does not copy as plain text, so when a table or grid is pasted into another application, it remains as Mathematica lists, rather than parsed as tab- or comma-delimited text. This means that I must provide a separate data file for most of the tables. Is there any way that I can programmatically add a Copy As Plain Text menu item to the Edit menu? Regards, Gregory