Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that you have to turn off). and for some other things like an em-dash or the Greek letter pi. Again, I presume this is because LaTeX uses something different for these as well. If you search for these and replace them with another string of characters, which will not be replicated anywhere else, in Word then you can then search for that string of characters and replace it, in LyX, with the correct representation. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0Yru3arasOikFPYRAuUlAJ94QsVocZdnD01MMm/RHJS9oTRaXgCeIHqn jFKmbkQ0fqFUomQoG1T8l8o= =pMs3 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
--- Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that you have to turn off). Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. and for some other things like an em-dash or the Greek letter pi. Again, I presume this is because LaTeX uses something different for these as well. If you search for these and replace them with another string of characters, which will not be replicated anywhere else, in Word then you can then search for that string of characters and replace it, in LyX, with the correct representation. Yes of course. Thanks again. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0Yru3arasOikFPYRAuUlAJ94QsVocZdnD01MMm/RHJS9oTRaXgCeIHqn jFKmbkQ0fqFUomQoG1T8l8o= =pMs3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just replace anything you change, because it's being 'smart'. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0Z3e3arasOikFPYRAh+EAJ949PZEz2yhdnsyRwmCDQUBQTjnqQCfcs3l GVDGkk7XuSsvMcPXsV+wc1M= =qYBe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
--- Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just replace anything you change, because it's being 'smart'. No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readable in Word. Normally I would just open a Word file in OOo but some people have so few clews about formatting that cleaning up a Word document is more trouble than it's worth for internal use. LyX handles a lot of the problems very quickly and invisibly. Thanks Thanks though -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0Z3e3arasOikFPYRAh+EAJ949PZEz2yhdnsyRwmCDQUBQTjnqQCfcs3l GVDGkk7XuSsvMcPXsV+wc1M= =qYBe -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readable in Word. Normally I would just open a Word file in OOo but some people have so few clews about formatting that cleaning up a Word document is more trouble than it's worth for internal use. LyX handles a lot of the problems very quickly and invisibly. Sounds as if it might even be worth it to record all the necessary SearchReplace actions and save them as Word or OO macro :-) Daniel
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
--- Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readable in Word. Normally I would just open a Word file in OOo but some people have so few clews about formatting that cleaning up a Word document is more trouble than it's worth for internal use. LyX handles a lot of the problems very quickly and invisibly. Sounds as if it might even be worth it to record all the necessary SearchReplace actions and save them as Word or OO macro :-) Daniel Good idea indeed. Last time I wrote a macro was in Lotus 123 about 16-18 years ago but if I keep moving Word junk to LyX I may have to do one again. It probably would not take long since it seems to be only 5-6 items consistantly. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that you have to turn off). and for some other things like an em-dash or the Greek letter pi. Again, I presume this is because LaTeX uses something different for these as well. If you search for these and replace them with another string of characters, which will not be replicated anywhere else, in Word then you can then search for that string of characters and replace it, in LyX, with the correct representation. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0Yru3arasOikFPYRAuUlAJ94QsVocZdnD01MMm/RHJS9oTRaXgCeIHqn jFKmbkQ0fqFUomQoG1T8l8o= =pMs3 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
--- Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that you have to turn off). Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. and for some other things like an em-dash or the Greek letter pi. Again, I presume this is because LaTeX uses something different for these as well. If you search for these and replace them with another string of characters, which will not be replicated anywhere else, in Word then you can then search for that string of characters and replace it, in LyX, with the correct representation. Yes of course. Thanks again. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0Yru3arasOikFPYRAuUlAJ94QsVocZdnD01MMm/RHJS9oTRaXgCeIHqn jFKmbkQ0fqFUomQoG1T8l8o= =pMs3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just replace anything you change, because it's being 'smart'. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0Z3e3arasOikFPYRAh+EAJ949PZEz2yhdnsyRwmCDQUBQTjnqQCfcs3l GVDGkk7XuSsvMcPXsV+wc1M= =qYBe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
--- Daniel Watkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just replace anything you change, because it's being 'smart'. No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readable in Word. Normally I would just open a Word file in OOo but some people have so few clews about formatting that cleaning up a Word document is more trouble than it's worth for internal use. LyX handles a lot of the problems very quickly and invisibly. Thanks Thanks though -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0Z3e3arasOikFPYRAh+EAJ949PZEz2yhdnsyRwmCDQUBQTjnqQCfcs3l GVDGkk7XuSsvMcPXsV+wc1M= =qYBe -END PGP SIGNATURE- __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readable in Word. Normally I would just open a Word file in OOo but some people have so few clews about formatting that cleaning up a Word document is more trouble than it's worth for internal use. LyX handles a lot of the problems very quickly and invisibly. Sounds as if it might even be worth it to record all the necessary SearchReplace actions and save them as Word or OO macro :-) Daniel
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
--- Daniel Lohmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with smart quotes off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readable in Word. Normally I would just open a Word file in OOo but some people have so few clews about formatting that cleaning up a Word document is more trouble than it's worth for internal use. LyX handles a lot of the problems very quickly and invisibly. Sounds as if it might even be worth it to record all the necessary SearchReplace actions and save them as Word or OO macro :-) Daniel Good idea indeed. Last time I wrote a macro was in Lotus 123 about 16-18 years ago but if I keep moving Word junk to LyX I may have to do one again. It probably would not take long since it seems to be only 5-6 items consistantly. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that you have to turn off). > and for some other things like an em-dash or > the Greek letter pi. Again, I presume this is because LaTeX uses something different for these as well. If you search for these and replace them with another string of characters, which will not be replicated anywhere else, in Word then you can then search for that string of characters and replace it, in LyX, with the correct representation. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0Yru3arasOikFPYRAuUlAJ94QsVocZdnD01MMm/RHJS9oTRaXgCeIHqn jFKmbkQ0fqFUomQoG1T8l8o= =pMs3 -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > > quotes) > LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, > so you should be > able to search and replace, in Word, for that > (though there is a Smart > Quote option or somesuch that you have to turn off). Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't produce the document but a search and replace is easy enough. > > > and for some other things like an em-dash or > > the Greek letter pi. > Again, I presume this is because LaTeX uses > something different for > these as well. If you search for these and replace > them with another > string of characters, which will not be replicated > anywhere else, in > Word then you can then search for that string of > characters and replace > it, in LyX, with the correct representation. Yes of course. Thanks again. > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFF0Yru3arasOikFPYRAuUlAJ94QsVocZdnD01MMm/RHJS9oTRaXgCeIHqn > jFKmbkQ0fqFUomQoG1T8l8o= > =pMs3 > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't >> produce the document but a search and replace is easy >> enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just replace anything you change, because it's being 'smart'. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF0Z3e3arasOikFPYRAh+EAJ949PZEz2yhdnsyRwmCDQUBQTjnqQCfcs3l GVDGkk7XuSsvMcPXsV+wc1M= =qYBe -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I > didn't > >> produce the document but a search and replace is > easy > >> enough. > I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't > disable the Smart > Quote option within Word, it may well just replace > anything you change, > because it's being 'smart'. No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readable in Word. Normally I would just open a Word file in OOo but some people have so few clews about formatting that cleaning up a Word document is more trouble than it's worth for internal use. LyX handles a lot of the problems very quickly and invisibly. Thanks Thanks though > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - > http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFF0Z3e3arasOikFPYRAh+EAJ949PZEz2yhdnsyRwmCDQUBQTjnqQCfcs3l > GVDGkk7XuSsvMcPXsV+wc1M= > =qYBe > -END PGP SIGNATURE- > > __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readable in Word. Normally I would just open a Word file in OOo but some people have so few clews about formatting that cleaning up a Word document is more trouble than it's worth for internal use. LyX handles a lot of the problems very quickly and invisibly. Sounds as if it might even be worth it to record all the necessary Search actions and save them as Word or OO macro :-) Daniel
Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
--- Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane schrieb: > > > > > No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I > > normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, > but > > I get some very badly formatted Word documents > for > > internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put > them > > into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into > > something readable in Word. > > > > Normally I would just open a Word file in OOo but > some > > people have so few clews about formatting that > > cleaning up a Word document is more trouble than > it's > > worth for internal use. LyX handles a lot of the > > problems very quickly and invisibly. > > > Sounds as if it might even be worth it to record all > the necessary > Search actions and save them as Word or OO > macro :-) > > Daniel Good idea indeed. Last time I wrote a macro was in Lotus 123 about 16-18 years ago but if I keep moving Word junk to LyX I may have to do one again. It probably would not take long since it seems to be only 5-6 items consistantly. Thanks __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of frustration trying to read poorly laid out pages. My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) and for some other things like an em-dash or the Greek letter pi. . It looks like an encoding problem but I don't see how to approach it since I don't see how to check what encoding LyX is using, nor Word's encoding. I also seem to be getting an occasional empty box for a subscript in an equation but I can live with that since it is better to re- enter the few equations with Lyx for better formatting anyway. Other things like headings etc I can easily redo in a few minutes but finding and replacing the ?' is a pain. Any suggestions? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of frustration trying to read poorly laid out pages. My problem is that I am getting a ? for (curly quotes) and for some other things like an em-dash or the Greek letter pi. . It looks like an encoding problem but I don't see how to approach it since I don't see how to check what encoding LyX is using, nor Word's encoding. I also seem to be getting an occasional empty box for a subscript in an equation but I can live with that since it is better to re- enter the few equations with Lyx for better formatting anyway. Other things like headings etc I can easily redo in a few minutes but finding and replacing the ?' is a pain. Any suggestions? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of frustration trying to read poorly laid out pages. My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly quotes) and for some other things like an em-dash or the Greek letter pi. . It looks like an encoding problem but I don't see how to approach it since I don't see how to check what encoding LyX is using, nor Word's encoding. I also seem to be getting an occasional empty box for a subscript in an equation but I can live with that since it is better to re- enter the few equations with Lyx for better formatting anyway. Other things like headings etc I can easily redo in a few minutes but finding and replacing the ?' is a pain. Any suggestions? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
