On Jul 26, 2005, at 9:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are two "Paste External" features in LyX -- "as lines" and "as
paragraphs." What, exactly, is the difference supposed to be? Both
of them
seem to do the exact same thing.
On a related note, why don't carriage returns make the transfer from
whatever
external document I'm copying from to the paste into LyX?
The problem you're encountering is that Mac and *nix have different
conventions for how to signal the end of a line. (Mac uses a carriage
return character, whereas *nix uses a line feed character.) LyX uses
the *nix convention, whereas I suspect that the program you're copying
from uses the Mac convention.
When I have a large text file I'm trying to import into a LyX document,
I run it through a converter like Linebreak
(<http://www.trancesoftware.com/software/linebreak/>) to convert to
*nix linebreaks, and then import into LyX.
PS -- Are there any plans to integrate LyX's paste function with the
system-wide paste function? It sure would be nice to just type Cmd-V
and have
it actually paste the last thing I copied.
I agree.
Bennett
