Philipp Fleig wrote: > Hello, > > thanks for your quick reply. > Basically this is what I have done, although instead of Insert- > >External I used File->Import->Latex (Plain).
Don't use that for xfig figures. > I don't have Insert->External in my LyX version, which is 1.4.3, run > on a Mac. Is what I have done equivalent to what you suggest? No. I cited the menu from memory and was wrong, the correct one is rather Insert->File->External material. > Probably I did not make this clear in my first post, but I can't > actually create a final document with the changes I made to the file, > because I get the error which I described earlier. If you do what I suggested you will not get errors (of course this assumes that you did not enter invalid LaTeX in xfig text fields). Georg