Hellmut Weber wrote:
Hi list,
I have a lot of word documents which I want to transform to lyx.
I do this in a very simple way producing a pdf-Version of the word
document (word + windows are running in a kvm window on my gentoo
linux system).
This PDF document I open with kpdf which permits markíng an area and
putting the contents as text in the communication buffer.
I can introduce this text in my lyx document, BUT all special symbols
like äöüß (german ;-) are lost.
The same sometimes is possible with acroread without this loss of the
special symbols. But it works only once in a while, strange, isn't it?
Since my german documents contain lots of umlauts this is quite tedious.
Any ideas how to speed up my work?
Use "xpdf" instead of kpdf - xpdf will happily let you paste "äöüß"
into LyX. I just tested by exporting that text from LyX to pdf,
and reimport it.
Helge Hafting
