Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that you

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that you

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > > quotes) > LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, > so you should be > able to search and replace, in

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't >> produce the document but a search and replace is easy >> enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I > didn't > >> produce the document but a search and replace is > easy > >> enough. > I'm assuming that you're using Word. If

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane schrieb: > > > > > No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I > > normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, > but > > I get some very badly formatted Word documents > for > > internal use. Occasionally it is easier to

MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-12 Thread John Kane
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of

MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-12 Thread John Kane
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of

MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-12 Thread John Kane
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of