Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-25 Thread Helge Hafting
Den 13. aug. 2015 22:53, skrev Hal Kierstead: I do not think you understood me. Suppose a create a LyX file and use it to generate a tex file. I send it to my coauthor who does not use LyX. He makes modifications to the LaTex file without changing the front material, and sends me his Tex f

Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-17 Thread Dr Eberhard Lisse
Use include files. Many and small ones. :-)-O el On 2015-08-13 21:53, Hal Kierstead wrote: [...] > I do not think you understood me. Suppose a create a LyX file and > use it to generate a tex file. I send it to my coauthor who does > not use LyX. He makes modifications to the LaTex file witho

Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-16 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2015-08-15, Georg Baum wrote: ... > There are some constructs in LyX that cannot be expressed in LaTeX or > are not exported (e.g. Notes). We discussed in the past how to get rid > of this limitation, but, but we do not have a consensus on a good > soluition yet. Notes are not the best examp

Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-15 Thread Hal Kierstead
> On Aug 15, 2015, at 10:24 AM, Georg Baum > wrote: > > Hal Kierstead wrote: > >> First of all, tex2lyx already comes close to making a good LyX file. The >> main problem is that there always seem to be a handful or errors that must >> be fixed before the file will run. For some reason the p

Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-15 Thread Georg Baum
Hal Kierstead wrote: > First of all, tex2lyx already comes close to making a good LyX file. The > main problem is that there always seem to be a handful or errors that must > be fixed before the file will run. For some reason the program cannot > handle options like \begin{thm}[Main Lemma], but

Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Hal Kierstead wrote: > > On Aug 13, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > > Hal, > I think I did understand. You want your collaborator to be able to make > arbitrary changes to the .tex file, then have tex2lyx figure out how to > create a new .lyx file. But y

Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Hal Kierstead
> On Aug 13, 2015, at 2:31 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > > Hal, > I think I did understand. You want your collaborator to be able to make > arbitrary changes to the .tex file, then have tex2lyx figure out how to > create a new .lyx file. But your collaborator could have done anything. That > ma

RE: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Thompson
Hal, I think I did understand. You want your collaborator to be able to make arbitrary changes to the .tex file, then have tex2lyx figure out how to create a new .lyx file. But your collaborator could have done anything. That makes the “modified” file no different from any other completely arbi

Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Hal Kierstead
>] On Behalf > Of Hal Kierstead > Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:54 PM > To: Mike Reeks <mailto:mike.re...@newcastle.ac.uk>> > Cc: Lyx-users mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org>> > Subject: Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx > > >> On Aug 13, 2015, at 12:02 PM,

RE: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Steve Thompson
on't have sufficient imagination. From: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org [mailto:lyx-users@lists.lyx.org] On Behalf Of Hal Kierstead Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:54 PM To: Mike Reeks Cc: Lyx-users Subject: Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx On Aug 13, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Mike Reeks mailto:m

Re: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Hal Kierstead
> On Aug 13, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Mike Reeks wrote: > > Dear Lyx Users > I have written a very large article in Lyx for publication in a scientific > journal which will only accept the article as a latex file. Of course Lyx > will generate a Latex file as well as a pdf file. I wanted to check

RE: Lyx to Latex to Lyx

2015-08-13 Thread Mike Reeks
Dear Lyx Users I have written a very large article in Lyx for publication in a scientific journal which will only accept the article as a latex file. Of course Lyx will generate a Latex file as well as a pdf file. I wanted to check that the Latex file is acceptable to Lyx. Unfortunately I get