Re: [need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

[samar j. singh]

On Tuesday 18 October 2005 03:50, Sven Schreiber wrote:
> >>6. Click the middle button on your mouse.
> >>
> >>That should be it. The experts tell me this should not work but
> >>unfortunately for the theory, it does for me.
> >>
> >>samar
> >
> >Kenward
>
> I just discovered your tips on transferring spreadsheet contents, and I
> think it's really useful; so I have turned this into a page for the tips
> section of the Wiki. It should be saved on the Wiki
> ("CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets"), but I'm not sure how to correctly link
> this to the tips section, so maybe somebody else could help me out.
>
> Samar, Kenward, I hope you don't mind being mentioned on the page.
>
> And btw, while I'm a loyal, devoted, enthusiastic, spreading-the-word
> (etc., you get the feeling...) Lyx user, I have to say that the need to
> publish this workaround as a hint just means that basic copy&paste is
> essentially "kaputt" in Lyx. Can we users hope for better life with 1.4?
>
> (Developers, please don't get me wrong, Lyx is great software.)
> -sven

Its great that you are visualising putting this on the wiki. 

Just a suggestion.  Similar issues keep coming up on cut and paste problems. 
For instance, recently there was this issue that you can't cut and paste 
between lyx documents and the simple answer is they have to be documents on 
the same instance of Lyx.

I just wonder if it might be a better idea to scan through the lists and 
summarize all cut and paste tips and put them together on the wiki if you can 
spare the time.

I have put someting on the wiki before. While the direct instructions are 
fairly simple I found some derivatives more problematic like the .jpg file
being downloaded as .jpeg which creates problems for lyx.

Christian at chr "at" home.se is the man you need to contact. Very helpful 
too.

Re your other comment,  like every other beauty Lyx has areas it could improve 
on, but the entire persona is what most of us go for. Lyx is an immensely 
productive tool. When you match it with something like freemind, its a 
powerful combination for thought and expression. To the developers of both, I 
am personally deeply indebted.

best regards

samar

[need help with wiki] Re: Excel data sheets

[Sven Schreiber]

>>6. Click the middle button on your mouse.
>>
>>That should be it. The experts tell me this should not work but
>>unfortunately for the theory, it does for me.
>>
>>samar
>>
>>
>
>
>Kenward
>  
>
I just discovered your tips on transferring spreadsheet contents, and I
think it's really useful; so I have turned this into a page for the tips
section of the Wiki. It should be saved on the Wiki
("CopyTablesFromSpreadsheets"), but I'm not sure how to correctly link
this to the tips section, so maybe somebody else could help me out.

Samar, Kenward, I hope you don't mind being mentioned on the page.

And btw, while I'm a loyal, devoted, enthusiastic, spreading-the-word
(etc., you get the feeling...) Lyx user, I have to say that the need to
publish this workaround as a hint just means that basic copy&paste is
essentially "kaputt" in Lyx. Can we users hope for better life with 1.4?

(Developers, please don't get me wrong, Lyx is great software.)
-sven

Re: aspell and ispell troubles

[Bennett Helm]

On Oct 17, 2005, at 12:11 PM, Giorgio Zavarise wrote:

In trying to get a spellchecker working for LyX I had the following  
troubles

(I AM USING LyX FOR MAC, OSX 10.3.9):

ASPELL:
istallation was ok, I activated all the dictionaries on the control  
panel, but I get the following error when using LyX:
 "The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened  
for reading".
Well, the folder exists, and it contains several things but not  
that file. I am suspicious that the aspell installer put these  
things in another folder like "/Library/Application Support/ 
cocoAspell" Is there a way to fix the problem?


ISPELL:
I got a tar file which requires some knowledge to be installed. Is  
there any binary package for non-expert users (OSX)?


I've frankly had little success with cocoAspell (which, apparently,  
is what you've used to install aspell, right?). Instead, go right to  
the source: aspell itself. You can download the source and  
dictionaries here: .


Because you're getting the source files, you'll need to compile and  
install them (which is the problem you've had for ispell). But it's  
really not hard; here's the procedure, which you'll need to do from  
an administrative account on your Mac.


Download and both aspell itself () and the dictionaries you want (ftp.gnu.org/gnu/aspell/dict>), and make sure they're decompressed.  
(If you don't see folders with the appopriate names, doubleclick on  
the .gz files (and, if that only leaves you with .tar files, on these  
as well) until you have the folders.) Then open Terminal.app, and do  
the following:


1. Type "cd " (with the space, but without the quotes, and don't hit  
 yet).
2. Drag the folder icon for the aspell program into the Terminal  
window (text will appear showing the directory the folder is in), and  
hit .
3. Type "./configure", followed by . That will spew out some  
incomprehensible messages about what it's doing.
4. When that's done, type "make", followed by . Again, you'll  
get more output.
5. When that's done, type "sudo make install", followed by .  
You'll be asked for your password, and you should type it (though  
nothing will appear on the screen), and then hit .


You'll need to repeat steps 1-5 for each of the dictionaries you want  
to install. (You'll get separate folders for each.)


That's it. Now from within LyX, select Edit > Reconfigure, restart  
LyX when it tells you to, double check that aspell is selected from  
LyX > Preferences > Spellchecker, and you should be good to go.


Bennett

Re: aspell and ispell troubles

[Andre Berger]

* Giorgio Zavarise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2005-10-17 18:20 +0200:
> In trying to get a spellchecker working for LyX I had the following 
> troubles
> (I AM USING LyX FOR MAC, OSX 10.3.9):
> 
> ASPELL:
> istallation was ok, I activated all the dictionaries on the control 
> panel, but I get the following error when using LyX:
>  "The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for 
> reading".
> Well, the folder exists, and it contains several things but not that 
> file. I am suspicious that the aspell installer put these things in 
> another folder like "/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell" Is there 
> a way to fix the problem?

There is. 

You need to install the dictionary/-ies.

1. Select aspell (not ispell) in the LyX Preferences dialog, save.

2. In Terminal.app,

  cd /Library/Application\ Support/cocoAspell/aspell6-en-6.0-0
  sudo ./configure  sudo make
  sudo make install

and repeat steps 2 and 3 likewise for each additional dictionary you
want to install.

(That's a quote from an earlier post of mine, it should really be
added to the FAQ!)

> ISPELL:
> I got a tar file which requires some knowledge to be installed. Is 
> there any binary package for non-expert users (OSX)?

aspell features a compatibility mode, if you really really need it.

-Andre

Re: Problems with my editor's note environment

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

- Original Message - 
From: "Steve Litt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 5:12 PM
Subject: Problems with my editor's note environment



Hi all,

My editor's not environment has 2 problems:

1. I cannot center the word "Editor's Note"
2. The line spacing on the last paragraph in this environment is spaced 
much

wider than other paragraphs in the same environment.

Note that the base for my layout file is memoir.

Here's my editor's note environment:

% ### whitebox is basis for StartNote and EndNote ###
% ### Implements 80% width, and indented paragraphs. ###
\newenvironment{whitebox}[0]%
 {%
 \setlength{\widthchange}{-2in}%
 \setlength{\minipagewidth}{\textwidth}%
 \addtolength{\minipagewidth}{\widthchange}%
 \hspace{-0.5\widthchange}%
 \begin{minipage}[]{\minipagewidth}%
 \begin{bfseries}%%
 Editor's Note\\[.2in]%
 \begin{tiny}%%
 \setlength\parindent{16pt}%%
 }%
 {%
 \end{tiny}%
 \end{bfseries}%
 \par
 \end{minipage}%
 ~\\[0.1in]
 }%


If I use

\center{Editor's Note}\\

it centers everything in the minipage -- not just the words Editor's Note. 
Go

figure.


I think this is correct. Everything after center will be centered until you 
tell it to do something else like raggedleft or raggedright


Not sure about the second issue as I couldn't seem to get the environment to 
work? If you could send a lyx file off list to me with it 'working'  I will 
happily fiddle with it for you.


Geoff



I'm sure my mistakes are minor, but I can't find them. Anybody have an 
idea?


Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author:
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Re: copy and paste between lyx documents does not work - why not?

[Georg Baum]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>> I'm using Linux and if I open two LyX documents, I
>> can't copy and paste
>> between the two windows.
> 
> Oh, you can! It's true! :)
> 
>> I can select text in other windows and paste it by a
>> mouseclick in a LyX
>> window.
>> Why can't I copy/paste between the LyX windows?
> 
> Then, do the following: Select the text in your
> first Lyx window, press Ctrl+C, then switch to the
> other Lyx window and press THE MIDDLE BUTTON OF YOUR
> MOUSE! :)

That does only work for text (and looses all formatting), not for tables,
graphics etc. These can only be copied between documents opened in the same
LyX instance.


Georg

Problems with my editor's note environment

[Steve Litt]

Hi all,

My editor's not environment has 2 problems:

1. I cannot center the word "Editor's Note"
2. The line spacing on the last paragraph in this environment is spaced much 
wider than other paragraphs in the same environment.

Note that the base for my layout file is memoir.

Here's my editor's note environment:

% ### whitebox is basis for StartNote and EndNote ###
% ### Implements 80% width, and indented paragraphs. ###
\newenvironment{whitebox}[0]%
  {%
  \setlength{\widthchange}{-2in}%
  \setlength{\minipagewidth}{\textwidth}%
  \addtolength{\minipagewidth}{\widthchange}%
  \hspace{-0.5\widthchange}%
  \begin{minipage}[]{\minipagewidth}%
  \begin{bfseries}%%
  Editor's Note\\[.2in]%
  \begin{tiny}%%
  \setlength\parindent{16pt}%%
  }%
  {%
  \end{tiny}%
  \end{bfseries}%
  \par
  \end{minipage}%
  ~\\[0.1in]
  }%


If I use 

\center{Editor's Note}\\

it centers everything in the minipage -- not just the words Editor's Note. Go 
figure.

I'm sure my mistakes are minor, but I can't find them. Anybody have an idea?

Thanks

SteveT

Steve Litt
Author: 
   * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware
   * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist
   * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist
Webmaster
   * Troubleshooters.Com
   * http://www.troubleshooters.com

aspell and ispell troubles

[Giorgio Zavarise]

In trying to get a spellchecker working for LyX I had the following 
troubles

(I AM USING LyX FOR MAC, OSX 10.3.9):

ASPELL:
istallation was ok, I activated all the dictionaries on the control 
panel, but I get the following error when using LyX:
 "The file "/usr/local/lib/aspell-0.60/english" can not be opened for 
reading".
Well, the folder exists, and it contains several things but not that 
file. I am suspicious that the aspell installer put these things in 
another folder like "/Library/Application Support/cocoAspell" Is there 
a way to fix the problem?


ISPELL:
I got a tar file which requires some knowledge to be installed. Is 
there any binary package for non-expert users (OSX)?


best regards

Giorgio Zavarise

Re: R.I.P. WYSIWYG

[Steve Litt]

On Monday 10 October 2005 11:27 am, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> _/ On Mon 10 Oct 2005 16:07:04 BST, [Angus Leeming] wrote : \_
>
> > Martin A. Hansen wrote:
> >> reading jacob nielsens weekly alertbox, i feel that this weeks issue
> >> would be of interest to the lyx-people.
> >>
> >> http://www.useit.com/alertbox/wysiwyg.html
> >
> > Fascinating! Word as LyX :)
>
> This extends beyond the word processing context. Web page composition is
> transforming itself too. Content management systems make WYSIWYG
> editors rather
> obsolete. In fact, people who use WYSIWYG editors to build sites are often
> snubbed these days, perhaps because poor standards compliance which
> follows and
> the poor underlying understanding of how everyone's Web works, as well as
> semantics (e.g. structure). It is the same problem we see with proprietary
> WYSIWYG tools.
>
> Roy

I wouldn't count out WYSIWYG just yet. It's an excellent way to pound out lots 
of content very fast, because what you see is what you get, so there's 
immediate feedback on whether both your content and your layout are 
appropriate for the audience. 

I've used Mozilla Composer and its ancestors to author Troubleshooters.Com 
since January 1997, and as far as I can tell by my logs, Troubleshooters.Com 
hasn't been snubbed. When I write a web page, I can quickly lay it out 
without worrying about either conforming to past policies or creating new 
ones.

Some wysiwyg authoring environemnts have styles, which make them capable of 
wygiwym if one uses the styles. In such cases, wysiwyg's only advantage is 
you can experimentally fine tune in the gui, and once you have it the way you 
like it, you can make it into a style.

I'm not sure TeX based authoring will ever gain significant mind share, 
because it's just too time consuming to make styles (environments). I've 
created my own .layout files for each of my books, and in each .layout file, 
the debugging phase for each command and environment has been excessive, like 
a day apiece. Contrast that to my work with WordPerfect 5.1, where creating 
even a complex style took 5 minutes. In MSWord, it took 10 to 15 minutes.

There's only one situation where I use TeX based authoring (via LyX), full 
length books. And there's only one reason I use LyX->LaTeX->TeX for full 
length books -- because the typeset result looks so darned good. And of 
course, with something as long as a book, "fine tuning" would be really 
obnoxious.

But for day to day short stories and web pages, I'm a WYSIWYG man.

SteveT

Steve Litt
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Re: Quick question: where are the outputs?

[Paul A. Rubin]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

They're not there...

In fact, I ran dir/s/b \blah.pdf but found nothing.

What might be going wrong? I've never changed anything under
Preferences since installing LyX, and I have all the support software
the installer demanded.

On 10/17/05, Geoffrey Lloyd - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:


They should appear in the same directory as the lyx file is?


- Original Message -
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: 
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:12 AM
Subject: Quick question: where are the outputs?




I'm using LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. When I do File > Export > ..., I
don't see any output files. Where are they? Thanks in advance.








1. Do view commands (e.g., View->DVI) work?

2. If you're trying to export a PDF file, check the LaTeX log 
(View->LaTeX Logfile) after doing File->Export->... and see if there is 
an error message.  If one of the applications used in the export fails, 
there is no output file (and no visible warning in LyX).


3. Does File->Export->LaTeX work?  It should produce a file with the 
document's name and a .tex extension in the directory where the file lives.


4. All else failing, open a DOS window, cd to the LyX bin directory, run 
'lyx -dbg files' and report what shows up in the DOS window from the 
point you click File->Export->whatever onward.


Paul

Re: Bug ?

[Paul A. Rubin]

Geoffrey Lloyd wrote:


- Original Message - From: "Nicolas Ferré" 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: Bug ?



Dear all, could you please confirm the following bug, found in the
following build of lyx:
LyX 1.3.6 of Sat, Jul 16, 2005
Built on Jul 17 2005, 12:36:17
Configuration
  Host type:  i686-pc-linux-gnu
  Special build flags:aiksaurus use-pspell use-ispell
  C   Compiler:   gcc
  C   Compiler flags: -g -O2
  C++ Compiler:   g++ (3.4.3)
  C++ Compiler flags: -O
  Linker flags:
  Frontend:   qt
Qt version:   3.3.4
  Packaging:  posix
LyX binary dir:   /usr/local/bin
LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx


In the attached file, there are some math, entered in the following way:
1) type any character ;
2) one step back in the math box (e.g. with the left arrow of the
numerical pad) ;
3) open an exposant or an indice ;
4) without having typed anything in the box, get out of it.

To the right, OK.
To the left, the top or the bottom, lyx crashes with an emergency saving.



I find it is Ok to the right, left and bottom but crashes if I exit Top

Geoff


Bug 1598 -- apparently fixed in version 1.4.0cvs.

Paul

Re: Predefined styles

[Charles de Miramon]

Jon Haynes wrote:

> I'm new to Lyx and I was wondering whether there was a way to set the
> styles globally across an entire document.
> 
> e.g.
> Title: 22pt Helvetica
> Paragraph: 12pt Georgia
> 
> At the moment I can only see how to set this information inline, e.g. each
> paragraph. Am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks J.

Read my answer in the thread "Defining paragraph styles"

Cheers,
Charles
-- 
http://www.kde-france.org

Re: Bug ?

[Geoffrey Lloyd]

- Original Message - 
From: "Nicolas Ferré" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

To: 
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 2:38 PM
Subject: Bug ?



Dear all, could you please confirm the following bug, found in the
following build of lyx:
LyX 1.3.6 of Sat, Jul 16, 2005
Built on Jul 17 2005, 12:36:17
Configuration
  Host type:  i686-pc-linux-gnu
  Special build flags:aiksaurus use-pspell use-ispell
  C   Compiler:   gcc
  C   Compiler flags: -g -O2
  C++ Compiler:   g++ (3.4.3)
  C++ Compiler flags: -O
  Linker flags:
  Frontend:   qt
Qt version:   3.3.4
  Packaging:  posix
LyX binary dir:   /usr/local/bin
LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx


In the attached file, there are some math, entered in the following way:
1) type any character ;
2) one step back in the math box (e.g. with the left arrow of the
numerical pad) ;
3) open an exposant or an indice ;
4) without having typed anything in the box, get out of it.

To the right, OK.
To the left, the top or the bottom, lyx crashes with an emergency saving.


I find it is Ok to the right, left and bottom but crashes if I exit Top

Geoff 

Bug ?

[Nicolas Ferré]

Dear all, could you please confirm the following bug, found in the 
following build of lyx:

LyX 1.3.6 of Sat, Jul 16, 2005
Built on Jul 17 2005, 12:36:17
Configuration
  Host type:  i686-pc-linux-gnu
  Special build flags:aiksaurus use-pspell use-ispell
  C   Compiler:   gcc
  C   Compiler flags: -g -O2
  C++ Compiler:   g++ (3.4.3)
  C++ Compiler flags: -O
  Linker flags:
  Frontend:   qt
Qt version:   3.3.4
  Packaging:  posix
LyX binary dir:   /usr/local/bin
LyX files dir:/usr/local/share/lyx


In the attached file, there are some math, entered in the following way:
1) type any character ;
2) one step back in the math box (e.g. with the left arrow of the 
numerical pad) ;

3) open an exposant or an indice ;
4) without having typed anything in the box, get out of it.

To the right, OK.
To the left, the top or the bottom, lyx crashes with an emergency saving.
#LyX 1.3 created this file. For more info see http://www.lyx.org/
\lyxformat 221
\textclass article
\language frenchb
\inputencoding auto
\fontscheme times
\graphics default
\paperfontsize 11
\spacing onehalf 
\papersize a4paper
\paperpackage widemarginsa4
\use_geometry 0
\use_amsmath 0
\use_natbib 0
\use_numerical_citations 0
\paperorientation portrait
\secnumdepth 3
\tocdepth 3
\paragraph_separation skip
\defskip medskip
\quotes_language french
\quotes_times 2
\papercolumns 1
\papersides 1
\paperpagestyle default

\layout Standard


\begin_inset Formula $b$
\end_inset 


\the_end

Re: Quick question: where are the outputs?

[mywebs2005-lyx]

> I'm using LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. When I do File >
> Export > ...
> don't see any output files. Where are they? Thanks
> in advance.

Set the 'Edit-> Preferences-> Paths-> Working
directory' to some place with no spaces (e.g.
C:\MyLyx);

Please save the lyx file inside the path mentioned
above -- with no spaces (e.g. C:\MyLyx\myfile.lyx),
then try to make the 'File-> Export-> PDF(pdflatex)
and check if the PDF file is at the same folder
(C:\MyLyx\myfile.pdf) and give me a callback :)
--

 Abraços!
 Douglas









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Re: copy and paste between lyx documents does not work - why not?

[mywebs2005-lyx]

> I'm using Linux and if I open two LyX documents, I
> can't copy and paste 
> between the two windows.

Oh, you can! It's true! :)

> I can select text in other windows and paste it by a
> mouseclick in a LyX 
> window.
> Why can't I copy/paste between the LyX windows?

Then, do the following: Select the text in your
first Lyx window, press Ctrl+C, then switch to the
other Lyx window and press THE MIDDLE BUTTON OF YOUR
MOUSE! :)

--

 Abraços!
 Douglas










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Predefined styles

[Jon Haynes]

I'm new to Lyx and I was wondering whether there was a way to set the styles
globally across an entire document.

e.g. 
Title: 22pt Helvetica
Paragraph: 12pt Georgia

At the moment I can only see how to set this information inline, e.g. each
paragraph. Am I missing something?

Thanks J.

Re: Installing layouts on Windows

[Angus Leeming]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> Sorry, I can in fact see the user dir in the About menu; however,
> placing my files there didn't fix the problem. Please help!
> 
>> Hi all, I'm trying to install the algorithms layout (from
>> http://bgu.chez.tiscali.fr/). I followed the instructions exactly
>> as specified in the accompanying readme.txt (my HOME is my cygwin
>> home dir so I copied all the files to under my .lyx directory
>> there, I defined TEXINPUTS to point to the packages dir, and I ran
>> Reconfigure). I still don't see any algorithm style available. The
>> readme.txt mentioned that I could find out where the user directory
>> is located by looking under Help > Version, but I see no such menu
>> option
>> (Help > About LyX doesn't specify this).  I'm using LyX 1.3.6 and
>> MikTeX. Please help!! Thanks in advance.

LyX will look for .layout files in the ${LYX_USER_SUPPORT}/layouts
directory where
 LYX_USER_SUPPORT="$HOME/.lyx"
on *nix and, I guess, Cygwin and
 LYX_USER_SUPPORT="C:/Documents and Settings/USER/Application
Data/LyX"
on Windows.

So, question 1: you're using the Cygwin executable, right?

If you install the LyX layout file correctly, you should be able to
find the thing in the Layouts->Document menu. If the LaTeX class is
not installed correctly, then the class will be marked as
"unavailable", meaning you can edit your .lyx document but you won't
be able to generate a .dvi file, etc.

Regards,
Angus

Re: Quick question: where are the outputs?

[lyx . overbored]

They're not there...

In fact, I ran dir/s/b \blah.pdf but found nothing.

What might be going wrong? I've never changed anything under
Preferences since installing LyX, and I have all the support software
the installer demanded.

On 10/17/05, Geoffrey Lloyd - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> They should appear in the same directory as the lyx file is?
>
>
> - Original Message -
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: 
> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2005 8:12 AM
> Subject: Quick question: where are the outputs?
>
>
> > I'm using LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. When I do File > Export > ..., I
> > don't see any output files. Where are they? Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
>

Re: Defining paragraph styles

[Paul]

Mike Meyer wrote:
>>Is there an easy way to redefine paragraph styles in Lyx?
...
> Well, you have sort of overlooked what I think is the point of
> LyX/LaTeX. But we'll skip that.

The point being that authors should concentrate on content and logical
markup, and typesetters/publishers should worry about how the final
thing looks? Kind of (but not exactly) like the separation between HTML
and CSS?

I'm wearing my typesetting hat at the moment, so does that mean that Lyx
isn't really suitable for me - it's more designed for content creators?

I've been looking at the "memoir" class and pure LaTeX and managed to do
some tweaks to the output. I'm doing a collection of short stories so
"chapters" is a bit of a misnomer, and each one has a different author
which makes things a bit complicated. But I think I'm getting there.

Thanks for the other info about layout files etc. I don't really mind
how it looks in LyX itself, so it seems like the book.cls file is the
one to check out. Seems like a steep learning curve, so thanks for
getting me started!

Paul.

Re: copy and paste between lyx documents does not work

[Georg Baum]

Gunnar wrote:

> I'm using Linux and if I open two LyX documents, I can't copy and paste
> between the two windows.

I guess you mean two LyX instances? In this case it is indeed not possible.
If you open both documents in the same LyX instance, you can copy
everything with C-c and C-v.

> I can select text in other windows and paste it by a mouseclick in a LyX
> window.
> Why can't I copy/paste between the LyX windows?

Because it has not been implemented.


Georg

Quick question: where are the outputs?

[lyx . overbored]

I'm using LyX 1.3.6 for Windows. When I do File > Export > ..., I
don't see any output files. Where are they? Thanks in advance.