On Dec 19, 2006, at 9:45 AM, Stefano Franchi wrote:
Hi everyone:
I need some help on accented letters.
I managed to convert a long, multi-file manuscript from its
original Framemaker format into LyX. However, I an now facing a
problem with accents. All the accented letters have been converted
as LaTeX escape sequences. For instance, é is \i \'{e} (in the LyX
file) or \'{e} (in LaTeX. This would not be a problem, since the
file prints correctly, except that the LyX display is completely
screwed up. LyX puts the accent about a line above where they
should go and as a result the text is barely readable (there are
*many* accents in my text).
I am not really sure why LyX behaves this way, but I have seen
this behaviour in the pasty (and reported it here), so I am not
surprised. I am hunting for suggestions on how to get out of the
pickle. I could do a search and replace in an external editor and
substitute all LaTeX sequences with properly accented characters.
However, since there is a potentially large number of combinations
and the manuscript is split over several files, the operation would
be very time-consuming and potentially error prone. Unless I could
find a program/editor allowing me to do multiple replace over
multiple files at once. I am not aware or any such programs for Mac/
Linux, though? Perhaps the more technically oriented readers of
this list know better?
Or perhaps there are other possible solutions I have not considered?
Any help is greatly appreciated. I am using LyX 1.4.3 on MacOs
10.3.9, BTW.
Hi Stefano,
I don't have a solution, just wanted to confirm that I encountered
exactly the same problem (first I wondered where the accents had
gone, then I saw them in the line above...). Currently I'm just
ignoring that because I don't have time to fight another bug. If I
did have more time, I'd probably spend it on getting LyX 1.3.7 to
compile on Mac Intel...
Jens
