On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:06:53PM +0100, Steffen Moeller wrote:
>
> * When entering a formula in normal text mode it should
> be possible to convert it to math as it is possible
> to convert it to tex. The current behaviour is that
> a new empty math box is created, although there is
> text hilited. I can not even paste the text into the box.
> My workaround is to enclose the math with $$s and make it tex.
I'll let the others comment on the rest of your points, but I can sort of
answer this.
First, I'm not sure how you got into this situation. If you
want to import a latex document into lyx, you should just relyx the whole
document. If you're already writing a lyx document, why are you writing
formulas in text mode?
Second, if you for some reason have a big text math formula (or formulae)
that you want to import, you could put it into a file and use 'reLyX -p'
from the command line (see the man page).
Third, we had talked about the ability to write (or paste) things in, say, a
popup and automatically translate them into LyX. It can create some
problems: for example, what if you paste \chapter commands into an article
or the like. But it ought to be possible to do in general, as it basically
involves creating a temp file, running reLyX -p on it, and the including
that file. All of these are things lyx can do, but noone has put them
together yet. You're invited to, if you'd like :)
-Amir
