Hi,
Recently I discovered that PubMed Central (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
) does not accept TeX/LaTeX submissions, so I have to convert some of
my LyX documents to Microsoft Word (a common headache). My
manuscripts have lots of equations, so I need to use MathType to
convert the equations. MathType has recently added a feature to
convert LaTeX equations directly from within a Word document, as long
as the equation is delimited by $...$ or \[...\], so the conversion
would be relatively easy to do.
Unfortunately, though copying from LyX and pasting into Word produces
LaTeX formulas, these do not have $...$ or \[...\] delimiters, which
means that they would have to be added by hand, one-by-one, making the
process tedious. (It is also possible to export the LyX document into
LaTeX and import it into Word, but the LaTeX file breaks each screen
line of text with a paragraph mark, which then has to be deleted
within Word. Furthermore, the LaTeX file preserves all of the
remaining commands for sections, subsections, etc., whereas copying
and pasting from LyX into Word gives a very clean and nearly ready
format.)
I seem to recall that the inline and display equation delimiters were
included in copy/paste in an earlier version of LyX, but the latest
version does not seem to have them. Is there a way to turn this
feature on? (If not, could this optional feature be added easily in
the next release?)
Thanks,
Gerard Ateshian
