Re: Strange Pacer Question

2023-12-28 Thread John White
I don't think so. What I am looking into is this: Pacer will only accept pdf files. If those who export to pdf from within a word document don't have to "flatten" the document before uploading to Pacer, while those who use lyx are forced to flatten any document imported from a Word doc

Re: Strange Pacer Question

2023-12-28 Thread John White
Hi el, If I get a Word doc, it opens in libreoffice, which allows for export to pdf. If I recall, I generally either highlight the words involved while in libreoffice and paste directly to lyx or instead export to pdf, highlight the relevant portions of the pdf and paste to lyx. It took me

Re: Strange Pacer Question

2023-12-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
Ever looked at Pandoc? el On 28/12/2023 21:57, Rich Shepard wrote: [...] > When I have a .doc/.docx file sent that I want to > incorporate into a LyX document I'll do either of two > things: > > 1. Highlight the desired text in the Word document then use > Edit -> Paste Special -> Join Lines

Re: Strange Pacer Question

2023-12-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
John, did you ever try to export using PDF5 (LuaLaTeX)? Recent PSTricks should load https://github.com/zauguin/luapstricks when using LuaLaTeX. If that works for the "normal" way try and upload into Pacer and see what happens. If Pacer accepts that see what happens when you import a Word

Re: Strange Pacer Question

2023-12-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, John White wrote: To file in Pacer, the document must be "flattened." This poses no problem with files created in lyx. However, whenever I import a Word file and convert it to lyx, Pacer balks and refuses to accept the document unless I "flatten" it. If I am at the office,

Re: Strange Pacer Question

2023-12-28 Thread John White
I use lyx 2.3.6 on my debian (bullseye) system I often file in Pacer, the database used by the US federal court system. Normally, I just do regular lyx stuff and once the file is ready, export with pst2pdf (to insure that line numbers exist at the left side of each page) and upload to

Re: Two input parameter of lyx

2023-12-28 Thread Dr Eberhard W Lisse
In this particular case LyX can use colors without ERT. el On 28/12/2023 16:03, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 28/12/2023 à 03:48, Jiahao Yan a écrit : >> Hi, >> >> I'm a fan of lyx but I meet a question when I use it. Sometimes we >> want input two parameter with one command, like >>

Re: Two input parameter of lyx

2023-12-28 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 28/12/2023 à 03:48, Jiahao Yan a écrit : Hi, I'm a fan of lyx but I meet a question when I use it. Sometimes we want input two parameter with one command, like \textcolor{color}{text}, but lyx will compile the command and the first curly braket, considering the first parameter as none. I

Re: Two input parameter of lyx

2023-12-28 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 28 Dec 2023, Jiahao Yan wrote: I'm a fan of lyx but I meet a question when I use it. Sometimes we want input two parameter with one command, like \textcolor{color}{text}, but lyx will compile the command and the first curly braket, considering the first parameter as none. I wonder if

Two input parameter of lyx

2023-12-28 Thread Jiahao Yan
Hi, I'm a fan of lyx but I meet a question when I use it. Sometimes we want input two parameter with one command, like \textcolor{color}{text}, but lyx will compile the command and the first curly braket, considering the first parameter as none. I wonder if there is a solution. I would appreciate