On 2011-02-28, Dean Montgomery wrote:
>> On 2011-02-26, Dean Montgomery wrote:
>>> I'm trying to copy and Paste LyX source view to moodle (Firefox). I
>>> add and extra $ at the beginning and end of the TeX code and Moodle
>>> will render it as a proper formula. However for some reason the LyX
>>> Source view window adds some HTML + CSS formating and shows up as a
>>> line of code right above the rendered formula: p, li { white-space:
>>> pre-wrap; }
>> Strange. I never realized this.
>> Are you sure that LyX adds the HTML/CSS?
>> Does this also happen, if you paste into a "normal" text editor?
> Yes I can paste to a plain text editor, then re-copy it to clipboard then it
> will paste without html formatting into Moodle/Drupal. Cont...
>>> This also happens if I paste source code from LyX view source window
>>> into Drupal. Is there a way to have LyX not copy html source to
>>> clipboard?
>> You might try to copy from the buffer. At least here on my Linux
>> machine, formulas are exported as LaTeX code.
> Ok I found it works copying from the main window instead of the source
> view window in LyX. This resolves the problem. Thanks.
So this seems to be a feature of either QT or your OS or both to
keep/convert the syntax highligt in the source view window when pasting
to an application thought to accept HTML.
Günter
