On 2021-11-17 23:28, Steve Litt wrote:
Daniel said on Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:44:23 +0100
On 17/11/2021 10:01, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I have a C program I want to show in a book. So I use the LyX-Code
environment, but when I copy the C file to the clipboard and paste it
into the LyX-Code environment, all the newlines are removed. What's
the right way to show a C program file within LyX?
Thanks,
SteveT
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You could try
"Edit" > "Paste Special" > "Plain Text" or Ctrl+Shift+V.
The preceding worked. Thank you!
I never understood what "Plain Text" does not among other things it
should keep the line breaks. I guess keeping line-breaks should be the
default...
It's ridiculous that it's not the default, you're right.
Thanks also to Norman Dunbar who suggested the same things.
Thanks also to Hartmut Hasse and Stephan Witt for their suggestions,
which I didn't try for lack of time once the Shift+Ctrl+v worked.
I spent 2 hours trying to find a method last night, before figuring I'd
be better off asking the list. Thanks for your suggestions!
SteveT
Sorry to hear that you wasted so much time. Others seem to have been
there before as well:
https://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8026
Unfortunately, gmane is dead and I couldn't figure out where the
mentioned discussion is. But I guess its result just wasn't followed by
action. I tried to bump the ticket up again.
And there was someone on the list, I think, who had a similar problem
when pasting into ERT where joining lines seems to be no good idea either.
In general, it seems to me that the default paste should honor the
format of the original. And if that isn't desired, "join lines" could be
selected.
(Mostly there is *some* good idea for why things are as they are but
there needs to be adjustment in light of people's actual experiences.)
Daniel
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