Haven't you tried to just copy and paste? If you are using Linux you can do that (paste with the middle button).
Cheers, Helgi �rn On Monday 03 December 2001 22.49, Jim Osborn wrote: > This seems like a silly question, but I've run up against the > problem frequently enough that I thought I'd better stop and > ask the experts. When I have a plain text document, let's > call it "foo.txt" that I want to convert to Lyx, say, "foo.lyx" > here's what I've been doing: > > Create a new document, naming it "foo" (LyX creates "foo.lyx" as > expected). > Try to import the text from foo.txt, via File->Import->ASCII text as ... > At this point, the filename in LyX changes to "foo.txt" with > the text in question on the screen, and the entire file "selected." > The text is not, at this point, actually "imported" to foo.lyx, though LyX > thinks both foo.txt and foo.lyx have changed. > > I can Edit->Copy in foo.txt, then switch back to foo.lyx through the > Documents menu, and Edit->Paste. > > Is this really the Import procedure? Oftentimes, I've merrily begun > editing after doing the File->Import step, only to realize I was > making changes to foo.txt (now known as foo.txt.lyx), and hadn't > actually got the text into foo.lyx. Is there a more straightforward > procedure I should be using? > > TIA > > Jim -- -------------------<http://www.release.nu/>-------------------
