Perhaps the subject of this thread should be: "External Copy then Paste with math content"
The idea would be for generating a string like: "The result is $\beta=2$" in some external program would when copied and pasted into LyX would automatically know to format the LaTeX part as math content? LyX could offer options to paste the string literally or to paste the string and then find/replace the LaTeX parts. In a more complicated example, perhaps the contents of an entire table could be copied and pasted where some cells are text and others are math (or partial math). In any case, would something like this be useful to others? Is this something I should suggest on the Trac bug/enhancement tracker? Or do users have better ways of copying and pasting results tables from software like Matlab into a LyX report? Thanks, Ken
