Re: Share LaTeX

2013-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 03:08, Nico Williams wrote: Mind you, merging LyX contents via a VCS is not easy... What I've been doing so far with my colleagues is to pass around a your turn e-mail, then we each make our edits in turn with change tracking, and

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 04:45, Scott Kostyshak wrote: Hi bcsikos, On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote: Hello: Is it possible in lyx or latex to save or export a document so that the resulting content would be

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 04:45, Scott Kostyshak wrote: You could even define a new output format and a converter (let's call it imageDoc) from pdf to imageDoc, and then you can export to imageDoc. But as Scott mentions, be aware of multiple pages. This won't

Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
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

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Scott Kostyshak
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

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Hi Scott, Thanks for your reply. I don't know if it is saving the file or not- that¹s just my reasoning. The problem is that as soon as I click on import- plain latex- within a second it flashes to the folder where the file I want to import is and immediately closes that window and returns me to

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Gyorgy SZEIDL
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

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Hi Gyorgy, Yes I did use the portable tex option when coming out of Sciword. I is a problem with all my files not just one. Thanks, Mark On 26/02/2013 11:27, Gyorgy SZEIDL gyorgy.sze...@uni-miskolc.hu wrote: hi mark, have you used the portable option when saving the file in swp? best regards

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Buffer import latex appears in the bottom left hand corner of the screen for a few more seconds when it goes away and is replaced by font default Thanks On 26/02/2013 11:27, Gyorgy SZEIDL gyorgy.sze...@uni-miskolc.hu wrote: hi mark, have you used the portable option when saving the file in

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
OK - I have more information on my problemŠ If I close down Lyx and start up again I can import the files- AS LONG AS I DO NOT OPEN A NEW FILE. If I try and open a new file and import into that it fails again as I have described.However if I just directly import then it works fine. I now have to

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Mark Salmon markhsal...@gmail.com wrote: OK - I have more information on my problemŠ If I close down Lyx and start up again I can import the files- AS LONG AS I DO NOT OPEN A NEW FILE. If I try and open a new file and import into that it fails again as I have

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Mark, If you have several files to import, maybe the command line tex2lyx utility can be more convenient. It lives somewhere inside the Lyx installation folder (on OSX: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/tex2lyx). Here is the help page I get when I do tex2lyx -h : Usage: tex2lyx [options]

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Hi Scott, Its a MAC OSX 10.8.2, ermmm-- let me think more about the saving issue and if I find anything more I'll get back. Got to get my lecture ready first tho now I am back in business- somewhat! I close down the whole machine and try again completely from fresh. Thanks for your help and

Re: Share LaTeX

2013-02-26 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/02/13 03:08, Nico Williams wrote: It'd be nice to have a LyX diff/merge feature. (We've had a thread about this.) Yes - and I think it would be *really* useful. Maybe a Google Sumer Of Code project, or would it

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Csikos Bela
Scott Kostyshak skost...@princeton.edu írta: Hi bcsikos, On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote: Hello: Is it possible in lyx or latex to save or export a document so that the resulting content would be bitmap images? That is, the result would be similar

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Ray Rashif
On 25 February 2013 18:59, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote: And/or is it possible to make a pdf which is not searchable or indexable? There may be a couple of ways or more to go about this. For starters, you may convert the text to outlines. For software that allow you to predefine

Re: Share LaTeX

2013-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 03:08, Nico Williams wrote: Mind you, merging LyX contents via a VCS is not easy... What I've been doing so far with my colleagues is to pass around a your turn e-mail, then we each make our edits in turn with change tracking, and

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 04:45, Scott Kostyshak wrote: Hi bcsikos, On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote: Hello: Is it possible in lyx or latex to save or export a document so that the resulting content would be

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 04:45, Scott Kostyshak wrote: You could even define a new output format and a converter (let's call it imageDoc) from pdf to imageDoc, and then you can export to imageDoc. But as Scott mentions, be aware of multiple pages. This won't

Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
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

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Scott Kostyshak
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

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Hi Scott, Thanks for your reply. I don't know if it is saving the file or not- that¹s just my reasoning. The problem is that as soon as I click on import- plain latex- within a second it flashes to the folder where the file I want to import is and immediately closes that window and returns me to

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Gyorgy SZEIDL
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

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Hi Gyorgy, Yes I did use the portable tex option when coming out of Sciword. I is a problem with all my files not just one. Thanks, Mark On 26/02/2013 11:27, Gyorgy SZEIDL gyorgy.sze...@uni-miskolc.hu wrote: hi mark, have you used the portable option when saving the file in swp? best regards

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Buffer import latex appears in the bottom left hand corner of the screen for a few more seconds when it goes away and is replaced by font default Thanks On 26/02/2013 11:27, Gyorgy SZEIDL gyorgy.sze...@uni-miskolc.hu wrote: hi mark, have you used the portable option when saving the file in

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
OK - I have more information on my problemŠ If I close down Lyx and start up again I can import the files- AS LONG AS I DO NOT OPEN A NEW FILE. If I try and open a new file and import into that it fails again as I have described.However if I just directly import then it works fine. I now have to

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Mark Salmon markhsal...@gmail.com wrote: OK - I have more information on my problemŠ If I close down Lyx and start up again I can import the files- AS LONG AS I DO NOT OPEN A NEW FILE. If I try and open a new file and import into that it fails again as I have

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Mark, If you have several files to import, maybe the command line tex2lyx utility can be more convenient. It lives somewhere inside the Lyx installation folder (on OSX: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/tex2lyx). Here is the help page I get when I do tex2lyx -h : Usage: tex2lyx [options]

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Hi Scott, Its a MAC OSX 10.8.2, ermmm-- let me think more about the saving issue and if I find anything more I'll get back. Got to get my lecture ready first tho now I am back in business- somewhat! I close down the whole machine and try again completely from fresh. Thanks for your help and

Re: Share LaTeX

2013-02-26 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Rainer M Krug r.m.k...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/02/13 03:08, Nico Williams wrote: It'd be nice to have a LyX diff/merge feature. (We've had a thread about this.) Yes - and I think it would be *really* useful. Maybe a Google Sumer Of Code project, or would it

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Csikos Bela
Scott Kostyshak skost...@princeton.edu írta: Hi bcsikos, On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote: Hello: Is it possible in lyx or latex to save or export a document so that the resulting content would be bitmap images? That is, the result would be similar

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Ray Rashif
On 25 February 2013 18:59, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu wrote: And/or is it possible to make a pdf which is not searchable or indexable? There may be a couple of ways or more to go about this. For starters, you may convert the text to outlines. For software that allow you to predefine

Re: Share LaTeX

2013-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 03:08, Nico Williams wrote: > Mind you, merging LyX contents via a VCS is not easy... > > What I've been doing so far with my colleagues is to pass around a "your > turn" e-mail, then we > each make our edits in turn with change

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 04:45, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Hi bcsikos, > > On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Csikos Bela wrote: >> Hello: >> >> Is it possible in lyx or latex to save or export a document so that the >> resulting content >>

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 26/02/13 04:45, Scott Kostyshak wrote: You could even define a new output format and a converter (let's call it imageDoc) from pdf to imageDoc, and then you can export to imageDoc. But as Scott mentions, be aware of multiple pages. This won't

Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
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

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Scott Kostyshak
Hi Mark, On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Mark Salmon 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.

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Hi Scott, Thanks for your reply. I don't know if it is saving the file or not- that¹s just my reasoning. The problem is that as soon as I click on import- plain latex- within a second it flashes to the folder where the file I want to import is and immediately closes that window and returns me to

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Gyorgy SZEIDL
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 wrote: Hi, I would be grateful for some urgent help. I am trying to transfer lecture slides (Beamer) from Scientific word

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Hi Gyorgy, Yes I did use the portable tex option when coming out of Sciword. I is a problem with all my files not just one. Thanks, Mark On 26/02/2013 11:27, "Gyorgy SZEIDL" wrote: >hi mark, >have you used the portable option when saving the file >in swp? >best

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Buffer import latex appears in the bottom left hand corner of the screen for a few more seconds when it goes away and is replaced by font default Thanks On 26/02/2013 11:27, "Gyorgy SZEIDL" wrote: >hi mark, >have you used the portable option when saving the

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
OK - I have more information on my problemŠ If I close down Lyx and start up again I can import the files- AS LONG AS I DO NOT OPEN A NEW FILE. If I try and open a new file and import into that it fails again as I have described.However if I just directly import then it works fine. I now have to

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Mark Salmon wrote: > OK - I have more information on my problemŠ > If I close down Lyx and start up again I can import the files- AS LONG AS > I DO NOT OPEN A NEW FILE. If I try and open a new file and import into > that it fails again as I

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
Mark, If you have several files to import, maybe the command line tex2lyx utility can be more convenient. It lives somewhere inside the Lyx installation folder (on OSX: /Applications/LyX.app/Contents/MacOS/tex2lyx). Here is the help page I get when I do tex2lyx -h : Usage: tex2lyx [options]

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-26 Thread Mark Salmon
Hi Scott, Its a MAC OSX 10.8.2, ermmm-- let me think more about the saving issue and if I find anything more I'll get back. Got to get my lecture ready first tho now I am back in business- somewhat! I close down the whole machine and try again completely from fresh. Thanks for your help and

Re: Share LaTeX

2013-02-26 Thread Nico Williams
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > On 26/02/13 03:08, Nico Williams wrote: >> It'd be nice to have a LyX diff/merge feature. (We've had a thread about >> this.) > > Yes - and I think it would be *really* useful. > > Maybe a Google Sumer Of Code project,

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Csikos Bela
Scott Kostyshak írta: >Hi bcsikos, > >On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Csikos Bela wrote: >> Hello: >> >> Is it possible in lyx or latex to save or export a document so that the >> resulting >> content would be bitmap images? That is, the result

Re: pdf content saved as images

2013-02-26 Thread Ray Rashif
On 25 February 2013 18:59, Csikos Bela wrote: > And/or is it possible to make a pdf which is not searchable or indexable? > There may be a couple of ways or more to go about this. For starters, you may convert the text to outlines. For software that allow you to