Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-28 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Mark Salmon markhsal...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-28 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Mark Salmon markhsal...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: Import plain latex from Scientific word

2013-02-28 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:53 AM, Mark Salmon wrote: > 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

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

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

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