This question was previously posted to the TinyMCE HowTo Forum with no responses. Here's hoping that someone out there has encountered (and solved) this issue.

The question: **Is there some way to enable correct copy/paste of formatted text from a Lotus Notes email directly into TinyMCE?**

The scenario: A rolling comments system on a web site, into which users occasionally need to paste rich text from an email viewed in Lotus Notes.

The details:  

I have tried copying some formatted text from emails viewed in Lotus Notes (7.0.4, Windows XP) and pasting it into the "Full featured example" implementation of TinyMCE at <http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php> and found that it generally fails to maintain the formatting. In fact, of the browsers I tested, IE6 fared the best, and the more modern W3C standards compliant browsers were the worst.

Some text formatting I tested was:  

larger text  

underline  

italics  

bold  

numbered list  

bullet list  

indented text  

permanent pen  

font family: arial  

font family: times new roman

Results:  

-Firefox (3.6.8), Vista or XP: all formatting lost  

-Chrome (5.0.375.125), Vista or XP: all formatting lost, including line breaks  

-IE6 (XP): some formatting is maintained (fails to copy numbers and bullets for lists, but indents lists properly)  

-IETester (IE6) Vista: some formatting is maintained (fails to format lists at all, and the underline tag is not closed)  

-IE7 (XP): some formatting is maintained (fails to format lists at all, and the underline tag is not closed)  

-IE8 (Vista): some formatting is maintained (fails to format lists at all, and the underline tag is not closed)

If I first paste the clipboard from Lotus Notes into MS Word 2003 (11.5604.5606) it shows perfectly in Word, and if I then copy/paste it from there into TinyMCE it generally works better enough to be usable, although still loses some formatting, even when using the "Paste from Word" button in TinyMCE. Not surprisingly, if I open my Lotus Notes mail in a web mail client, the HTML mail copies and pastes perfectly into TinyMCE.

Since it shows perfectly in my Domino web client, and pastes perfectly into MS Word, it is obviously possible to copy/paste Lotus Notes formatting.

If anyone has had success with this please mention your Notes and browser versions, and any modifications you had to make to the TinyMCE config.