Ken wrote:
Minor correction: SWP crashes when I simply try to open LyX's exported
.tex file. In SWP if I choose to open a non-SWP tex file I get the
error "The file ... is not valid for the selected filter." SWP does
not crash but I am still unable to import the .tex file created by
LyX.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Ken
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi. There is a Wiki page on importing Scientific Workplace (SWP)
documents into LyX:
http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ImportingFromSWP
but I can not seem to find any information on import a LyX document into SWP.
I love using LyX but my co-author uses Scientific Word/Workplace. I
don't want to have to buy a copy for myself but I am not able export
my LyX documents in a way that he can import them. I have tried in
LyX File->Export->LaTeX but when I try to import that into SWP I get
the error:
"Error while reading paragraph 13.
Document has been truncated."
followed by
"A serious program error has occurred.
...{various dump and support information}"
and SWP crashes.
Is there any advice on how I can export LyX to SWP as I love LyX and
really, really don't want to have to buy/learn SWP.
Thanks,
Ken
Can you View -> DVI the document successfully in LyX? If you run LaTeX
against the exported .tex file, do you get a valid DVI?
The only other thing I can think of is maybe an encoding issue. I'm
pretty sure the exported .tex file will be UTF-8. I don't know what SWP
can/cannot ingest. Does paragraph 13 contain an funky characters? You
might try running iconv against the .tex file. Maybe conversion to
ASCII would fix the problem?
There's a support page about importing external .tex files at
http://www.mackichan.com/index.html?techtalk/660.htm~mainFrame. Doesn't
say anything about encoding (or crashes), though.
FYI, a few years back I worked with a co-author using SWP. The SWP ->
LyX direction was a pain because SWP uses its own LaTeX macros, but we
had no problem the other direction. I just exported a plain LaTeX file
and my co-author imported it effortlessly. This was an earlier version
of LyX (and likely SWP), though.
/Paul
