Copy/paste should not include formatting information
When pasting text from external program (e.g. MS-Word) to TaskCoach text may contain formatting information. For example text can contain captions which are in large font. This formatting will come into Task, Note and Category description field. Very often it is preferred not to contain those formattings. At least there could be pop-up menu (mouse left button usage) which could contain: "Paste" and "Paste as text". Default behaviour should be: "Paste as text". Copying and pasting text from description field in TaskCoach contains also formatting information: the text is very small font. Usually target application contains Edit -> Paste Special -> Text which can be used to strip formattings.
In addition: it is not possible to format text in that field so why text should be as formatted?
This request is more of a bug, although it isn’t a real issue.
TC does not actually store text formatting at all. So even though when you paste, the text looks formatted, the format is not saved. When you return to the text later, it will just be plain text that matches the settings for TC overall or for that task’s appearance settings.
There is a request for TC to handle formatting (i.e. rich text), and you might want to vote for it:
http://taskcoach.uservoice.com/forums/26465-desktop-version-windows-linux-mac-of-task-coach/suggestions/1785519-notes-other-panes-support-rich-text
Along with rich-text support, I would hope that Task Coach would include a common feature in most text programs: “paste and match style”
That would avoid the concern you have here. Also, when copying text out of TC into some other program, that command is what you should use if you want to ignore the text format from TC.
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Ari Voutilainen commented
Actually this result can be seen when closing and re-opening the window. For my point of view this issue could be closed: this can be also a feature. And the result is also that formattings are not possible.