Re: Creating a .lyx file using advice in tutorial - problem

2018-04-25 Thread Richard Kimberly Heck
On 04/24/2018 10:49 PM, Eamon wrote: > Following instructions in the Tutorial, : > • Open a new file with File->New > > • Type a sentence like: This is my first LyX document! > > • Save your document with File->Save As. > > I called the file newfile1.lyx > > On trying to open  a pdf by clicking on

Re: Copying from bulleted items -- includes the bullet?

2018-04-25 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 25/04/2018 à 16:42, Bernt Lie a écrit : I can certainly file a bug. (Where do I go to do so?) I think I noticed that a bullet was also pasted into a footnote, and typeset in the pdf file with a bullet… Go to www.lyx.org/trac to file a bug. We need to find a way to decide whether the

Re: Copying from bulleted items -- includes the bullet?

2018-04-25 Thread John Kane
I think I am misunderstanding this and whatever tests I tried were in not appropriate. On 25 April 2018 at 10:42, Bernt Lie wrote: > I can certainly file a bug. (Where do I go to do so?) > > > > I think I noticed that a bullet was also pasted into a footnote, and > typeset in

RE: Copying from bulleted items -- includes the bullet?

2018-04-25 Thread Bernt Lie
I can certainly file a bug. (Where do I go to do so?) I think I noticed that a bullet was also pasted into a footnote, and typeset in the pdf file with a bullet… -B From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org On Behalf Of Paul A. Rubin Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 16:38 To:

Re: Copying from bulleted items -- includes the bullet?

2018-04-25 Thread Paul A. Rubin
On 04/25/2018 10:04 AM, John Kane wrote: Presumably a feature. If one does a copy and paste, one usually wants the format to remain the same. If you want to change formats, aste and then apply the new format seems the way to go. On 25 April 2018 at 03:40, Bernt Lie

Re: Copying from bulleted items -- includes the bullet?

2018-04-25 Thread John Kane
"The few times I use Word, I almost invariably use paste without formatting (not that it works always, though…)". Can go either way, but I think the big difference is Lyx always uses environments so a fomat change is blindingly easy so why not assume that the writer wants to keep the existing

RE: Copying from bulleted items -- includes the bullet?

2018-04-25 Thread Bernt Lie
Thanks for answer. * Presumably a feature. If one does a copy and paste, one usually wants the format to remain the same. To me, this does not sound like a feature, but like a bug. LaTeX documentation puts a lot of emphasis on the importance of content over looks, and to me it seems more

Re: Copying from bulleted items -- includes the bullet?

2018-04-25 Thread John Kane
Presumably a feature. If one does a copy and paste, one usually wants the format to remain the same. If you want to change formats, aste and then apply the new format seems the way to go. On 25 April 2018 at 03:40, Bernt Lie wrote: > I'm using the basic LaTeX article style in

Re: Metadiscussion

2018-04-25 Thread Michael Berger
Thanks Guenter for this fine professional comment, Michael Berger On 25.04.2018 09:24, Guenter Milde wrote: Dear Dr. Lisse, On 2018-04-24, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: T-Bird sends to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org and posts to gmane.editors.lyx.general (which may, or may not, have an identical

Copying from bulleted items -- includes the bullet?

2018-04-25 Thread Bernt Lie
I'm using the basic LaTeX article style in LyX 2.2.3 on 64 bit Win 10, latest update. The following must be a bug?? If I copy (Ctrl+c) text from a bulleted list, and paste it (Ctrl+v) into, say, a data listing, footnote, etc, the bullet is inserted into the construct (data listing, bullet,

Re: Metadiscussion

2018-04-25 Thread Guenter Milde
Dear Dr. Lisse, On 2018-04-24, Dr Eberhard Lisse wrote: > T-Bird sends to lyx-users@lists.lyx.org and posts to > gmane.editors.lyx.general (which may, or may not, have an identical > audience). Actually, gmane.editors.lyx.general is a mirror of the mail group lyx-users@lists.lyx.org, so every