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Hi David,

I love Opal, however there is one MAJOR problem.  In exporting it does not maintain paragraph indentation (only first line indentation).  Acta did a great job maintaining paragraph indentation when exporting, and as a result I could export an Acta outline to AppleWorks or Word and when I opened the document, the format was exactly as it was in Acta.  I used to prepare lengthy and complicated outlines in this manner.  (I do a lot of training and word processed outlines of my presentations make great handouts.)

Please, please, please implement this feature in Opal ASAP.  Right now this deficit is making Opal useful primarily as a way of making notes for myself, not as a prewriting tool for full-blown word processing.

The reason for this is I'm relying on Apple's RTF conversion routines (unlike Acta where I wrote them). I'd like to continue to do so, but I think I finally thought of how to resolve this.

This still doesn't quite work. If "Bullets in Clipboard and Export" is selected in Preferences, the bullets are retained in Clipboard (but not, alas, in Export) and paragraph format is retained properly. If unselected, the bullets disappear but the tabs at the beginning of lines remain, so the effect is all wrong. Export is wrong no matter which preference I select (I never get the bullets, and no hanging indents).