Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
Hi, I might have a simple work around. Once the text has been copied from the pdf/ word doc into a lyx document export the lyx document as plain text. Open the plain text document in the simplest text editor you can find. Copy and paste the text back into a new lyx document and export to pdf in

Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
Hi, I might have a simple work around. Once the text has been copied from the pdf/ word doc into a lyx document export the lyx document as plain text. Open the plain text document in the simplest text editor you can find. Copy and paste the text back into a new lyx document and export to pdf in

Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-09 Thread AJR
Hi, I might have a simple work around. Once the text has been copied from the pdf/ word doc into a lyx document export the lyx document as plain text. Open the plain text document in the simplest text editor you can find. Copy and paste the text back into a new lyx document and export to pdf in

helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Greetings, LyX Land: I've encouraged people to learn to use LyX, so when they run into trouble, I feel responsible to try and help. I use Linux to prepare documents, so I have not experienced this problem before. Many people still use Windows and MS word and such, and so they do things that I

Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-07 Thread Paul A . Rubin
There are several separate issues here, with distinct fixes. None of the issues I can identify (there may be others) require that the user mess with the document encoding in LyX, at least if it's something typical, such as UTF8. Issue #1: Ligatures. PDF documents typically replace certain

Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-07 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/07/2012 04:02 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Greetings, LyX Land: I've encouraged people to learn to use LyX, so when they run into trouble, I feel responsible to try and help. I use Linux to prepare documents, so I have not experienced this problem before. Many people still use Windows and MS

helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Greetings, LyX Land: I've encouraged people to learn to use LyX, so when they run into trouble, I feel responsible to try and help. I use Linux to prepare documents, so I have not experienced this problem before. Many people still use Windows and MS word and such, and so they do things that I

Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-07 Thread Paul A . Rubin
There are several separate issues here, with distinct fixes. None of the issues I can identify (there may be others) require that the user mess with the document encoding in LyX, at least if it's something typical, such as UTF8. Issue #1: Ligatures. PDF documents typically replace certain

Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-07 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/07/2012 04:02 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Greetings, LyX Land: I've encouraged people to learn to use LyX, so when they run into trouble, I feel responsible to try and help. I use Linux to prepare documents, so I have not experienced this problem before. Many people still use Windows and MS

helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-07 Thread Paul Johnson
Greetings, LyX Land: I've encouraged people to learn to use LyX, so when they run into trouble, I feel responsible to try and help. I use Linux to prepare documents, so I have not experienced this problem before. Many people still use Windows and MS word and such, and so they do things that I

Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-07 Thread Paul A . Rubin
There are several separate issues here, with distinct fixes. None of the issues I can identify (there may be others) require that the user mess with the document encoding in LyX, at least if it's something "typical", such as UTF8. Issue #1: Ligatures. PDF documents typically replace certain

Re: helping Windows-user: document with lots of invalid characters

2012-04-07 Thread Richard Heck
On 04/07/2012 04:02 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: Greetings, LyX Land: I've encouraged people to learn to use LyX, so when they run into trouble, I feel responsible to try and help. I use Linux to prepare documents, so I have not experienced this problem before. Many people still use Windows and MS