CopyWithQ

Automatic Quotes

Simple javascript for automatic citation creation. When use selects a part of the text, and copy it in the usual way (both the shortcut Ctrl + c works and the use of the context menu called up by the right mouse button, the citation is automatically added to the copied text. Just vanilla javascript. Example html included in repo.

It creates 3 different data types (depends on settings) in clipboard. Plain text, HTML snippet and single link. Snippets are used by data type when pasting (CTRL + V) the data. For example pasting in notepad it places plain text, when pasting in Word or Google Docs it places rich html snippet.

What's new in version 2.1

• Script settings by json file
• In text snippet (mime type 'text/plain') there will be author name instead of author URL
• Automatic author select from HTML by list of possible selectors

(older news 2.0)

• Removed jQuery dependency. Away with jQuery!
• Added Scroll-to-text Fragment feature (support in Chrome, Edge and Opera only)
• Ability to get a link with the selected part of the text by selecting the text and using the keyboard shortcut CTRL + SHIFT + L

Use

Paste the script file anywhere in the page, like any regular javascript module

<script type="module" src="/copyWithQ.mjs?v2.1" crossorigin="anonymous" integrity="sha256-RIEMQiYzOgrZLW3qG1Zr/dxDKkp+j83lz2DMnOUzxhs="></script>

And that's all, now will be everything works with default settings.

But if you want to change settings this can be done by inline json file like this:

<script type="text/json" id="copy-with-q-settings">
	{
		"author": "John Doe",
		"autoQuotesMinLength": 240,
		"modulesImportPath": "/modules"
	}
</script>
<script type="module" src="/copyWithQ.mjs?v2.1" crossorigin="anonymous" integrity="sha256-RIEMQiYzOgrZLW3qG1Zr/dxDKkp+j83lz2DMnOUzxhs="></script>

a simple example of usage is in the example-usage.html file

Possible problems?

The mjs extension must have the correct mime type set to text/javascript, if it is too laborious, rename the suffix from .mjs to .js.

Services

Unpkg: https://unpkg.com/copywithq-automatic-quotes

NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/copywithq-automatic-quotes

Licence

CC BY-SA 4.0

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.

More info at https://iiic.dev/copywithq-automatic-quotes