Pasting from pdf

[Andrew Parsloe]

When I copy text from a pdf to the clipboard and paste into Word 95, 
Open Office or Abiword, the pasted text retains underlining, bolding and 
emphasis (italics). When I paste into LyX these are lost. It would be a 
real enhancement if LyX were to retain these styles. Is there a deep 
reason for LyX's failure here (or the even deeper reason of lack of an 
interested developer)?

At present, I have some journals to edit. The publisher sent them to me 
as pdf documents. I find I can copy a pdf and paste into Abiword, then 
save from Abiword as a Latex document, open that in Notepad++, 
find-&-replace all the extra spacing commands, and finally import that 
document into LyX. I get there in the end, but it's a roundabout process.

Andrew