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.
do it in this way:
- open a new lyx-doc
- insert->insert file->ascii as lines
Herbert
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