RE: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Thompson
If you used Lyx to create the LaTeX file, then you already have the helper file to that would be needed to work with the LaTeX. It is just the filename.lyx file that created it in the first place. For my own work, I do this all the time. Create a document with Lyx, and send it to a journal as the

RE: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Thompson
Hal, I think I did understand. You want your collaborator to be able to make arbitrary changes to the .tex file, then have tex2lyx figure out how to create a new .lyx file. But your collaborator could have done anything. That makes the “modified” file no different from any other completely

RE: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Thompson
If you used Lyx to create the LaTeX file, then you already have the "helper file" to that would be needed to work with the LaTeX. It is just the .lyx file that created it in the first place. For my own work, I do this all the time. Create a document with Lyx, and send it to a journal as the .tex

RE: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Thompson
Hal, I think I did understand. You want your collaborator to be able to make arbitrary changes to the .tex file, then have tex2lyx figure out how to create a new .lyx file. But your collaborator could have done anything. That makes the “modified” file no different from any other completely

RE: Cannot Export Lyx to latex on Mac

2010-05-25 Thread Steve Thompson
Thanks for the hint on running from a command window to see more useful error messages. As it turned out, my problem existed only with a nonstandard class/layout combination. The reported error was that tex2lyx could not find the .layout file. The reason was that the layout file and the class file

RE: Cannot Export Lyx to latex on Mac

2010-05-25 Thread Steve Thompson
Thanks for the hint on running from a command window to see more useful error messages. As it turned out, my problem existed only with a nonstandard class/layout combination. The reported error was that tex2lyx could not find the .layout file. The reason was that the layout file and the class file

RE: Cannot Export Lyx to latex on Mac

2010-05-25 Thread Steve Thompson
Thanks for the hint on running from a command window to see more useful error messages. As it turned out, my problem existed only with a nonstandard class/layout combination. The reported error was that tex2lyx could not find the .layout file. The reason was that the layout file and the class file