# Copying text from Perseus to save typing labor

**URL:** <https://www.textkit.com/t/copying-text-from-perseus-to-save-typing-labor/31000>\
**Category:** Greek\
**Created:** [December 23, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/copying-text-from-perseus-to-save-typing-labor/31000 "2025-12-23T20:27:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![hlawson38](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@hlawson38](https://www.textkit.com/u/hlawson38)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 8:27pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/copying-text-from-perseus-to-save-typing-labor/31000/1 "2025-12-23T20:27:28Z")

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Here is the problem: Copying and pasting from Perseus saves a lot of typing work, but when I copy from Perseus & paste directly into the textkit editer (i. e. this space ) it looks fine until I actually post. As posted the xml (or is it html?) markup language is included, which is most unsatisfactory.

Here is one solution: I copy the Perseus text into the linux text editor xed. xed seems to accept only the text and in the process seems to strip out the markup language, whatever it is. Whatever happens in xed, when I copy from xed into the textkit editor, the markup language is gone.

Have I overlooked some better way of doing this?

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**Author:** ![MattK](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@MattK](https://www.textkit.com/u/MattK)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/copying-text-from-perseus-to-save-typing-labor/31000/2 "2025-12-23T20:47:11Z")

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Is pasting unformatted text an option (the shortcut is ctrl shift and v)?

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**Author:** ![hlawson38](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/h/bb73d2/32.png) [@hlawson38](https://www.textkit.com/u/hlawson38)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/copying-text-from-perseus-to-save-typing-labor/31000/3 "2025-12-23T20:51:08Z")

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Gotta try ctrl shift and v. Here goes: [4] ἀλλὰ γὰρ οὐ δίκαιον, οὔτ᾽ εἴ τινες τοὺς ἀπαντῶντας τύπτουσι, τῆς ῥώμης κατηγορεῖν, οὔτε διὰ τοὺς ἀποκτείνοντας οὓς οὐ δεῖ τὴν ἀνδρίαν λοιδορεῖν,

Yay! It worked. I have been fiddling with computers since the 1980s and didn’t know about ctrl shift and v. Many thanks to MattK!

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**Author:** ![MattK](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/76d3ee/32.png) [@MattK](https://www.textkit.com/u/MattK)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2025, 11:31am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/copying-text-from-perseus-to-save-typing-labor/31000/4 "2025-12-24T11:31:20Z")

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No problem - it’s a shortcut that’s saved me a lot of time!

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**Author:** ![cmw](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/4da419/32.png) [@cmw](https://www.textkit.com/u/cmw)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/copying-text-from-perseus-to-save-typing-labor/31000/5 "2025-12-25T04:46:20Z")

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I’ve found that remapping Ctrl+Shitf+V in LibreOffice to paste unformatted text (instead of the default, which opens up an options dialogue) further saved me countless hours.