Depending on your operating system and version of Java, you can use the PST cut, copy and paste buttons or (Unix and PC) keyboard shortcuts for editing.
PST "Cut", "Copy" and "Paste" are
icons/buttons that perform editing functions on text in a text area
box. Text area boxes are white areas in which you can type text
e.g. your SCIENTIFIC JUSTIFICATION or TECHNICAL JUSTIFICATION.
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The Cut Button |
The "Cut" button copies the current highlighted text area (highlighted by
clicking at the start of the text and dragging the cursor over the
text to be highlighted) to the clipboard and removes it from the
current highlighted location in the text area. The clipboard is an
internal working area to the PIT where cut and copied text are
temporarily stored. Click on the link above to see an example of a
highlighted text area. Once removed, the cut text can be re-inserted
anywhere in the document using the "Paste" icon/button (see
below). If the cut button is clicked again, the buffer is overwritten
and the previous selection is lost.
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The Copy Button |
The "Copy" button copies the current highlighted text area to the clipboard but
leaves the highlighted text in the document (unlike "Cut"
which removes it). Click on the link above to see an example of a
highlighted text area. The copied text can be inserted anywhere in the
document using the "Paste" icon/button (see below).
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The Paste Button |
The "Paste" button inserts the text currently on the
clipboard into the text area at the current location of the
cursor. The text in the clipboard was placed there using the
"Cut" or "Copy" icon/buttons (see above). The text
remains on the clipboard to allow multiple copies of it to be placed
in the document and is only removed from it when new text is cut or
copied onto the clipboard.
Due to differences in cut/paste buffers between the various operating systems with PST releases and the Java Virtual Environment, cutting and pasting between external windows (e.g. xterms on Unix) and PST text boxes (e.g. the scientific justification text window) does not behave as might be expected. Below are guidelines for the use of cut/paste between external windows/programs and PIT text boxes.
To cut from an xterm or edit window (emacs, vi etc) on a Unix machine and paste into a PST text box, highlight the text in the xterm with the cursor (left button drag) and hit the 'Copy' button on the Sun keyboard (on the left side function pad). Go into the PST text window where you want the text to be pasted and hit keyboard ctrl-v. The selection will be pasted into the PST text box. This is the only cut/paste option that will work with the Unix/Solaris PIT distribution.
The keyboard shortcuts ctrl-x (cut), crtl-c (copy) and crtl-v (paste) work with Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000.