Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Kane schrieb: > > > > > No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I > > normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, > but > > I get some very badly formatted Word documents > for > > internal use. Occasionally it is easier to

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Lohmann
John Kane schrieb: No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, but I get some very badly formatted Word documents for internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into something readab

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I > didn't > >> produce the document but a search and replace is > easy > >> enough. > I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't >> produce the document but a search and replace is easy >> enough. I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart Quote option within Word, it may well just

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread John Kane
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Kane wrote: > > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > > quotes) > LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, > so you should be > able to search and replace, in Word,

Re: MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Kane wrote: > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly > quotes) LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart Quote option or somesuch that y

MS Word to LyX : Losing special characters

2007-02-12 Thread John Kane
What is the current approach to importing Word documents to LyX? I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for publication) and I have found that simply cutting and pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of formatting can save me a lot of f