On 17/04/2012 7:53 a.m., Alex Vergara Gil wrote:
> I'm still trying Mr Andrew Parsloe's work and there are to new thing I
> have discovered
>
> 3. The math insets such as $^{90}$ are imported as text when they should
> be imported as math, see point 1.
> 4. The coding \textemdash is imported as text when it should be imported
> as -- and the -- characters should be exported as \textemdash, this is a
> large dash
>
> Oh! I'm using MS Windows, MikTeX 2.8 and LyX 2.0.0.
>
> best regards
> ~-o--{____}--o-~
> Alex Vergara GilAlex, I've chosen to use LyX as an elaborate *text* editor with its list formatting, its bolding, colour, Outline window, yellow notes, branches, etc., but all the time acting on plain text rather than interpreting LaTeX commands and displaying them as LyX does `normally'. The main reason for this choice (with my level of technical competence) was the difficulty in distinguishing, on export to the plain text bib file, which LaTeX commands are part of the bib file and which are just providing cosmetic effects to aid readability or aid navigation in LyX (and are not part of the bib file). Whatever the frustration of not having e.g. maths displayed as such, it does mean you can use LyX with a certain freedom, almost as a `scratch pad', colouring text here, emphasising it there, bolding it, if you want to draw attention to particular records or parts of them -- it is all stripped away on plain text export.
Andrew
