hi mark,
have you used the portable option when saving the file
in swp?
best regards
györgy
Hi Mark,
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Mark Salmon <markhsal...@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,
I would be grateful for some urgent help. I am trying to transfer lecture
slides (Beamer) from Scientific word into Lyx 2.0.5. I have followed the
wiki advice and saved from Sci word as plain latex. Then I open a new file
in Lyx and try and import the file- a see for about 2 seconds the folder in
which I have stored my old sci word files and then it closes and takes me
back to the empty Lyx file- so I cannot actually select the file I want to
import. Its almost as if Lyx is immediately trying to save the new file- I
don't know whats going on but it just doesn't give me the chance to import
th file after I select import.
LyX does try to save after importing:
http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8236
But I'm not sure that's the problem. Is it a problem that it tries to
save? Is the folder write-protected? Do you get an error?
In general, it's difficult to import non-simple LaTeX into LyX. There
have been a lot of improvements to LaTeX importing recently. If you
happen to be using Ubuntu, you can try the newest development version:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3
(If I had to guess, though, I do not think this would solve your problem).
Best,
Scott
