Hi try to give a look at Laport's book http://www.amazon.com/LaTeX-Document-Preparation-System-2nd/dp/0201529831 It helps. My best wishes for your thesis mario
On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 04:41 PM, Alan McIntyre <apmcint...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a relative newbie to Lyx and am using it for writing my thesis. The > problem I'm having is that the pdf output I generate, which looks OK (bit > 'jumpy' looking though), appears to be bitmap images rather than proper > searchable text. For example I need to submit my document to my university > via the Turnitin plagarism detection system, but this complains that my > document contains no text! Also, on the pdf output I can't do copy/paste > text, word counts, word search, etc. > > I'm using Lyx on Win XP, set up with the LyXWinInstaller v.1.6.8. It's all > default setup - I know nothing about Latex or what goes on under the cover! > > Thanks, > Alan Email sent using Axigen Free Mail Server: http://www.axigen.com/mail-server/free