Hi Mark, On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:41 AM, Mark Salmon <markhsal...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I would be grateful for some urgent help. I am trying to transfer lecture > slides (Beamer) from Scientific word into Lyx 2.0.5. I have followed the > wiki advice and saved from Sci word as plain latex. Then I open a new file > in Lyx and try and import the file- a see for about 2 seconds the folder in > which I have stored my old sci word files and then it closes and takes me > back to the empty Lyx file- so I cannot actually select the file I want to > import. Its almost as if Lyx is immediately trying to save the new file- I > don't know whats going on but it just doesn't give me the chance to import > th file after I select import.
LyX does try to save after importing: http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/8236 But I'm not sure that's the problem. Is it a problem that it tries to save? Is the folder write-protected? Do you get an error? In general, it's difficult to import non-simple LaTeX into LyX. There have been a lot of improvements to LaTeX importing recently. If you happen to be using Ubuntu, you can try the newest development version: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3 (If I had to guess, though, I do not think this would solve your problem). Best, Scott
