Hi Raphael.
Raphael Clifford wrote:
1) Quite often I want to copy text from one section of a document and
paste it into another. However, if I do that then the maths is pasted
in its latex form and I have to go to every formula and retype it in lyx
maths mode. What should I be doing instead as this is rather painful?
Use edit->paste instead of the middle mouse button (which is equivalent to edit->paste external selection).
Ah! Thanks very much :)
2) Also quite often someone supplies edits in latex to a document I have
written in lyx. How do I incorporate them into a lyx document? The
latex is typically very simple with nothing fancier than maths formulae
and plain text in it.
You could try to use reLyX (shipped with 1.3.x) for text->lyx conversion but
it's not very good. You'll have to polish the output a bit. (there's a
replacement being worked in current cvs)
An alternative if the text has little or no formatting is to paste text
inside your document and then select math chunks and press C-M.
OK. So the reLyx/tex2lyx method involves making a complete latex document from the latex text and then converting the latex document to lyx and then copying and pasting from the lyx document?
Cheers, Raphael
