On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 01:49:06PM -0800, 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 ...
If you want to use import, then start lyx with no open document, and then select file->import->ascii... This will automatically create foo.lyx
