Re: Search and replace in selection only

2023-12-07 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 07/12/2023 à 12:45, Folsk Pratima a écrit : Can you please explain me how to do it then? What I do is select some text and then use the Find and Replace (Quick) feature and LyX just goes on replacing through the rest of the document as well. This is frustrating. This feature does not exist i

Re: Search and replace in selection only

2023-12-07 Thread Folsk Pratima
On Tue, 5 Dec 2023 05:39:38 -0800 (PST) Rich Shepard wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2023, Folsk Pratima wrote: > > > The subject. LyX Version 2.3.7. Any luck in newer versions? > > Have not before had any issues with current version 2.3.6.1. > > Thanks, > > Rich > > Can you please explain me how t

Re: Search and replace in selection only

2023-12-05 Thread Rich Shepard
On Tue, 5 Dec 2023, Folsk Pratima wrote: The subject. LyX Version 2.3.7. Any luck in newer versions? Have not before had any issues with current version 2.3.6.1. Thanks, Rich -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Search and replace in selection only

2023-12-05 Thread Folsk Pratima
The subject. LyX Version 2.3.7. Any luck in newer versions? -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users

Re: LyX 2.3.0RC2: Bug in advanced search and replace

2018-01-31 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 10:31:39PM +, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > Many thanks for testing and finding this regression, Eric! I can > reproduce and I will do a bisect later tonight to narrow down the issue. Posted to lyx-devel at [1]. Scott [1] https://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-devel@lists.lyx.

Re: LyX 2.3.0RC2: Bug in advanced search and replace

2018-01-31 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 07:26:49PM +, Eric Barkan wrote: > Under 2.3.0RC2, I find that the advanced search and replace pane does not > respond to keyboard input.  The text cursor appears when I click on the > pane, but I can't enter text directly into the pane or into a math box

LyX 2.3.0RC2: Bug in advanced search and replace

2018-01-31 Thread Eric Barkan
Under 2.3.0RC2, I find that the advanced search and replace pane does not respond to keyboard input.  The text cursor appears when I click on the pane, but I can't enter text directly into the pane or into a math box in the pane.  I do not find this problem in 2.3.0RC1. I have built 2.3

Re: Search and replace within figure settings?

2012-11-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: For figures, a nice feature to use is 'figure group'. Give a name to a group and all graphics in the same group share the same parameters. JMarc, Another useful approach. Thanks for the insight! Rich

Re: Search and replace within figure settings?

2012-11-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Rainer M Krug wrote: You could also redefine your includegraphics. I did something similar, to have all graphics in a shadowbox. I included in the preamble: % from http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/70547/how-can-i-renew-includegraphics-to-always-use-shadowbox

Re: Search and replace within figure settings?

2012-11-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 14/11/2012 15:39, Richard Heck a écrit : On 11/14/2012 09:10 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: Is it possible to automate changes in figure settings and cross-references? For example, changing the width of all figures from 80% of text width to 60% of text width or changing all cross-references from n

Re: Search and replace within figure settings?

2012-11-14 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Le 14/11/2012 15:39, Richard Heck a écrit : On 11/14/2012 09:10 AM, Rich Shepard wrote: Is it possible to automate changes in figure settings and cross-references? For example, changing the width of all figures from 80% of text width to 60% of text width or changing all cross-references from n

Re: Search and replace within figure settings?

2012-11-14 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/11/12 15:39, Richard Heck wrote: No idea if you can use this in your case, but here it is: You could also redefine your includegraphics. I did something similar, to have all graphics in a shadowbox. I included in the preamble: % fro

Re: Search and replace within figure settings?

2012-11-14 Thread Rainer M Krug
text width to 60% of text >> width or changing all >> cross-references from number + page to only number? >> > The only way to do this is to load the LyX file into a text editor and use > search and replace > there. Or you can do it with a perl or python script, etc

Re: Search and replace within figure settings?

2012-11-14 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 14 Nov 2012, Richard Heck wrote: The only way to do this is to load the LyX file into a text editor and use search and replace there. Or you can do it with a perl or python script, etc. Richard, That's what I thought, but I wanted to learn if I missed something within th

Re: Search and replace within figure settings?

2012-11-14 Thread Richard Heck
to do this is to load the LyX file into a text editor and use search and replace there. Or you can do it with a perl or python script, etc. Back up the file first!! Richard

Search and replace within figure settings?

2012-11-14 Thread Rich Shepard
ables and tweaking the compiled results to suit client preferences has involved a lot of manual labor. For future reference I would like to learn how to automate these tasks if it's possible to do so with a global search and replace. TIA, Rich

"search and replace button" moves

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Bonhoff
Hallo, Lyx-Users, I had several times a problem with the advanced "search and replace" function. I don't know why (perhaps because the cursor is sometimes in a math environment) but the sidebar where I can click "Search", "Replace" and "Replace all" s

advanced search and replace should leave you where you were after finishing

2011-01-24 Thread Jose Quesada
Hi, I notice that when I do a search-replace, at the end I'm at the beginning of the doc. advanced search and replace should leave you where you were after finishing, Otherwise it breaks the writting flow. Again, a very minor usability issue. Thanks! -Jose Jose Quesada, PhD. Research scie

Re: Lyx 2: How to use regex back-references in the advanced search and replace dialog??

2010-11-29 Thread stefano franchi
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:33 AM, stefano franchi wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:30 AM, stefano franchi < > stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Dear Lyxers, >> >> I am trying out the new advanced search with regexes, and I cannot figure >> out how to use backreferences in the replace par

Re: Lyx 2: How to use regex back-references in the advanced search and replace dialog??

2010-11-29 Thread stefano franchi
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:30 AM, stefano franchi wrote: > Dear Lyxers, > > I am trying out the new advanced search with regexes, and I cannot figure > out how to use backreferences in the replace part of the dialog. > > I am used to using \1 \2 etc. as back references to first match, second > matc

Lyx 2: How to use regex back-references in the advanced search and replace dialog??

2010-11-29 Thread stefano franchi
Dear Lyxers, I am trying out the new advanced search with regexes, and I cannot figure out how to use backreferences in the replace part of the dialog. I am used to using \1 \2 etc. as back references to first match, second match, etc., but if I try to replace dashes with en-dashes between number

Re: search and replace within latex-environment

2009-02-23 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Leo Gürtler schrieb: is it possible to search and replace within a latex environments? Not yet, but in the next major LyX version, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/NewInLyX20 For now you can open your LyX file with a text editor and then replace. regards Uwe

Re: search and replace within latex-environment

2009-02-23 Thread Richard Heck
Leo Gürtler wrote: Dear lyx list, is it possible to search and replace within a latex environments? See example attached to this mail. e.g. I want to change the "a" in the latex-environment to "A." Trying so shows me that I can not do this with search&replace in L

search and replace within latex-environment

2009-02-23 Thread Leo Gürtler
Dear lyx list, is it possible to search and replace within a latex environments? See example attached to this mail. e.g. I want to change the "a" in the latex-environment to "A." Trying so shows me that I can not do this with search&replace in Lyx, because the replace

Re: Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Uwe Stöhr writes: > This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a > text editor and then use find and replace. Thanks, I didn't think about the fact that LyX files are text files. That seems a better solution than exporting to Latex and then re-importing to LyX. It appears that eq

Re: Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Uwe Stöhr
Anders Host-Madsen schrieb: Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX? Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or \mathbf with \mathsf. This is currently only possible by opening a LyX file with a text editor and then use find and replace. If not, is there any

Search and replace in equations

2009-02-13 Thread Anders Host-Madsen
Is there any way to search and replace in equations in LyX? Say I want to replace x with y in all my equations. Or \mathbf with \mathsf. If not, is there any plans to implement this? One of the advantages of using Latex is that it's plain text, so it's possible to search and replace in

Re: ding (was search and replace)

2008-07-03 Thread G. Milde
On 2.07.08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > The latest ding > version 1.5 has the facility to copy search results to clipboard (and more, > namely 216,000 entries), which would help already a lot, The "copy search results to clipboard" feature is IMO not very helpfull, as it copies *all* search

Re: ding (was search and replace)

2008-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008 15:18 schrieb G. Milde: Thanks, Günter, thats what I did so far (cut and paste). Unfortunately I am a biologist without any experience in programming (and too old to learn -in my next life I might choose informatics, but who knows whats up than?). The latest ding versi

Re: ding (was search and replace)

2008-07-02 Thread G. Milde
On 2.07.08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > By the way, how would I link ding with Lyx, in order to push the found > english word into the document? Is it similar to Jabref, e.g.? No such support exists in ding (you could program it, maybe. Rather, mark the chosen translations with the mouse and dro

Re: ding (was search and replace)

2008-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Mittwoch, 2. Juli 2008 10:27 schrieb G. Milde: Thanks for your pointer, yes, I have to update from 1.4 to 1.5 By the way, how would I link ding with Lyx, in order to push the found english word into the document? Is it similar to Jabref, e.g.? Wolfgang > On 2.07.08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote

ding (was search and replace)

2008-07-02 Thread G. Milde
On 2.07.08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > I have at the same time a german-english dictionary running (Ding -by > the way is there a better one? This one is quite limited in respect to > the items it contains) The ding wordlist of version 1.5 contains more than 14 definitions. Do you use Vers

Re: search and replace

2008-07-02 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
Wolfgang Engelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am having problems with the search and replace function, which I > use heavily in translating a book from German into English. After > having used the replace funtion for about 10 to 20 times the PC > slows down and if I do

search and replace

2008-07-02 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Hi, I am having problems with the search and replace function, which I use heavily in translating a book from German into English. After having used the replace funtion for about 10 to 20 times the PC slows down and if I do not restart LyX in time might finally hang. It says could not fork

Re: search and replace noun style

2007-11-23 Thread Abdelrazak Younes
William Seager wrote: Hi all. Does anyone know if there is a way to search a document for a certain word and replace it with the same word but in noun style (small caps)? Open the lyx file in a text editor and search and replace the word xxx with the following (on three new lines): \noun on

search and replace noun style

2007-11-22 Thread William Seager
Hi all. Does anyone know if there is a way to search a document for a certain word and replace it with the same word but in noun style (small caps)? thanks -- William Seager University of Toronto Scarborough www.utsc.utoronto.ca/~seager

Re: Feature Request: Search and replace with format?

2006-08-09 Thread Helge Hafting
Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi Helge thanks a lot - I thought this would be the only option at the moment. Therefore I have a question for a extension of the search / replace to include options to including formating, i.e. emphasized, noun, underlined. It would be of great help in e.g. biological arti

Feature Request: Search and replace with format?

2006-08-08 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi Helge thanks a lot - I thought this would be the only option at the moment. Therefore I have a question for a extension of the search / replace to include options to including formating, i.e. emphasized, noun, underlined. It would be of great help in e.g. biological articles where species name

Re: Search and replace with format?

2006-08-08 Thread Helge Hafting
Rainer M Krug wrote: Hi is there any possibility to do a Search - Replace in such a way that e.g. I can replace SearchTerm with SearchTerm (emphasized)? Can't be done inside lyx, but it can be done with a trick. Some work, but it is worth it if you have _lots_ of terms: 1. Save your file an

Search and replace with format?

2006-08-08 Thread Rainer M Krug
Hi is there any possibility to do a Search - Replace in such a way that e.g. I can replace SearchTerm with SearchTerm (emphasized)? Rainer -- Rainer M. Krug, Dipl. Phys. (Germany), MSc Conservation Biology (UCT) Department of Conservation Ecology and Entomology University of Stellenbosch Matie

Re: search and replace

2001-05-15 Thread Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
> "Rodrigo" == Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rodrigo> Hi, I have to replace a regular expression in my thesis. But Rodrigo> when i tried: Rodrigo> edit --> search/replace Rodrigo> I found out that I can't type any kind of accents, and this Rodrigo> expression has

Re: search and replace

2001-05-14 Thread Guenter Milde
On Tue, 15 May 2001 18:12:16 -0300 (BRST) wrote Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have to replace a regular expression in my thesis. But when i tried: > > edit --> search/replace do you really mean a _regular_ expression? (Something like fo.+l for foil and fojl and forumla

Re: search and replace

2001-05-14 Thread Andre Poenitz
> edit --> search/replace > > I found out that I can't type any kind of accents, and this expression > has an aacute {á}. In terms of lyx codes (extracted form my doc's source > file) this expression should be something like: > > est\i \'{a} > gios Make a backup copy of your .lyx file and edi

search and replace

2001-05-14 Thread Rodrigo Esteves de Lima-Lopes
Hi, I have to replace a regular expression in my thesis. But when i tried: edit --> search/replace I found out that I can't type any kind of accents, and this expression has an aacute {á}. In terms of lyx codes (extracted form my doc's source file) this expression should be something like: e

search and replace of format codes

2000-07-29 Thread Gerhard Schuck
As far as I know searching and replacing is only possible for text. I think sometimes it would be very helpful to be able to replace format codes too, or at least ERT. Of course I can do that outside of lyx with an editor. But this is inconvenient and moreover dangerous (if you make mistakes). Wh