On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 16:00 +0200, Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > Darren Freeman wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:28 +0200, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > >> Darren Freeman wrote: > >>> This is not very helpful! What if I don't want to change the encoding, > >>> fearful as I am of needless change. > >>> I have no idea where to start > >>> looking for these characters pasted in from OOo. > >> There's a chance that we can do something about it, but you have to > >> investigate which characters are causing problems. If not, we cannot do > >> much. > > > > I just got this on the command-line. I don't suppose it's helpful :) > > > > "Could not find LaTeX command for character 0xf0b4. > > LaTeX export will fail." > > > > Is there a convenient way for me to display this character? > > Yes: Alt-x, unicode-insert f0b4
That was really helpful, thanks! In LyX, this char was a square box which somehow is twice the width on the screen as LyX cursor movement thinks it is. I.e. cursor in the middle of the box, selection only selects left half of box. I couldn't select-paste into the Edit->Find dialogue, which would have helped for sure. Filed bug 3765. But I did the same thing in kwrite, copying from LyX and pasting in kwrite->Edit->Find. And it turned out that this character was in a place where I expected a \times symbol. Maybe it didn't copy properly from OpenOffice but it would have been a cross symbol for multiplication. Anyway I replaced the offending char with a FIXME and it works now. I did discover that LyX won't revert a clean document even if it changed on disc, this is normally a useful thing to do when you want to edit outside of LyX. Again, filed bug 3766. Have fun, Darren
