This seems like a silly question, but I've run up against the problem frequently enough that I thought I'd better stop and ask the experts. When I have a plain text document, let's call it "foo.txt" that I want to convert to Lyx, say, "foo.lyx" here's what I've been doing:
Create a new document, naming it "foo" (LyX creates "foo.lyx" as expected). Try to import the text from foo.txt, via File->Import->ASCII text as ... At this point, the filename in LyX changes to "foo.txt" with the text in question on the screen, and the entire file "selected." The text is not, at this point, actually "imported" to foo.lyx, though LyX thinks both foo.txt and foo.lyx have changed. I can Edit->Copy in foo.txt, then switch back to foo.lyx through the Documents menu, and Edit->Paste. Is this really the Import procedure? Oftentimes, I've merrily begun editing after doing the File->Import step, only to realize I was making changes to foo.txt (now known as foo.txt.lyx), and hadn't actually got the text into foo.lyx. Is there a more straightforward procedure I should be using? TIA Jim
