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Clippings 2.6 Release Notes
What's New in Clippings 2.6
This release adds new Thunderbird-specific options for removing extra line breaks and quote symbols when creating new clippings. Two check boxes are added to the New Clipping dialog box:
- Create as unquoted text - If the selected text contains message quote symbols (">" for plain text messages), the new clipping is created without the quote symbols.
- Remove extra line breaks - Creates the new clipping with unnecessary line breaks removed. Spacing between paragraphs are preserved.
Also for Thunderbird, you can choose to have clippings pasted into the email compose window as plain (normal) text or quoted text. To enable this feature, right-click on the Clippings status bar icon and choose Show Options When Pasting.
For a full list of enhancements and bug fixes, please see the changelog in the downloads page.
Known Issues
HTML Entities Converting to Question Mark Symbol
Clippings containing HTML entities such as (for non-breaking space) are converted to "?". To prevent this, use numeric character references in hexadecimal for encoding special characters (for example,   for non-breaking space).
Special characters encoded using numeric character references in decimal (for example,   for non-breaking space) will be rendered as that character.
Exporting Clippings To An Existing File May Not Always Overwrite the File
There are some situations where exporting Clippings data in the standard Clippings or the Clippings 1.x Series file formats will cause that data to be appended to the existing content in the file instead of overwriting it. Thus, if you had three entries in Clippings named "foo", "bar" and "baz", exported the data to sample.rdf, and then exported again to sample.rdf, then the resulting exported file would contain "foo", "bar", "baz", "foo", "bar", "baz".
The workaround is to export Clippings using a different file name.
Things You Should Know About
Support for both Firefox and Thunderbird was introduced in version 2.0. Users of Clippings in both programs should note the following:
- You must download and install Clippings for both Firefox and Thunderbird if you want to use Clippings in both programs. Installing Clippings in one program will not install it in the other.
- Clippings data created in Firefox and Thunderbird are stored separately and are not shared between the two programs. As a result, the clippings and folders created in Firefox will not be available to use in Thunderbird, and vice versa. However, you can export Clippings data from Firefox for use in Thunderbird, and vice versa.