[MlMt] Pasting text results in image - how to fix?

[Randall Gellens]

On 26 Jan 2023, at 8:18, Giovanni Lanzani wrote:

> On 26 Jan 2023, at 12:23, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:
>
>> On 22 Jan 2023, at 0:42, Scott wrote:
>>
>>
>> It'll only happen if the application putting it on the pasteboard 
>> added an image as well as text. I don't really know why any app would 
>> do that if it's really only text. (MailMate does not have any text to 
>> image conversion.)
>>
>> That said, I recall changing something related to Office apps (at 
>> least Excel and Word), but I'm not sure it works in other cases. 
>> Please try and see if the latest beta behaves differently (r5937). If 
>> not, I'll revisit the issue (right now, I've forgotten the details :) 
>> ).
>>
>
> Excel works indeed and you get a nice Markdown table. Pasting from 
> Numbers (= Excel made by Apple) results in an image indeed.

I run into this most often when pasting from Numbers. In my cases, I'm 
most often just copying one or two cells and wanting to paste them as 
plain text, so ending up as a markdown table would be extra work, but I 
can see that as being what's most often desired by users in general.

--Randall