On Fri, 11 May 2007 09:45:58 +0200 Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tim Michelsen wrote: > > > > Very good point. I often do get the comment that I should run the spell > > checker. But it takes the same amount of time to check with the Lyx > > spell checker and train it all the technical terms as > > printing and correcting it manually. > > Especially if you write a lot of code, which it always tries to > spell-check as well... > > > > >> I still use Word for the final spell check of my documents. After the > >> LyX spell checker run and proof-reading everything, I just copy the > >> whole text into an empty word document and look for suspicious red and > >> green lines. > > How to you do this? > > I can't copy anything from Lyx to another program on Ubuntu Feisty (V. > > 1.4.3). > > Selections I do within Lyx are ignored by other programs. > > You can always export as text and then open it in word. I believe that there is also an option to export as rtf. > > I never understood why Lyx which is based on QT is not able to access > > the windows manager clipboard like the following procedure: > > 1) CTRL+A = select the whole text in Lyx > > 2) CTRL+C = copy selected text > > 3) switch to Gedit, Kile, Kate or Openoffice > > 4) CTRL+V = paste selected text there > > > > I am not taking of X-server clipboard. There are several posts about it. > > Why not using the normal clipboad just as copying from Kate to Gedit? > > (Please correct me if I am wrong here!) > > Well, I am doing it on Windows (obviously :-)), where the clipboard can > be used as expected for getting things *out of LyX*. Pasting Text, etc. > *into* LyX, is a bit more complicated (as one always has to choose "past > as lines" or "past as paragraphs", where the latter would be a > reasonable default), but works as well. > > However, as far as I know, the developers have been doing a lot of good > work on this topic for 1.5, so we can expect quite some improvements in > clipboard handling :-) > > > Daniel >
