Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 29. April 2013, 01:02:12 schrieb Sotiris Hasapis: > I ' m trying to convert lyx to odt file using the methods described > here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice > but nothing seems to work. In fact when taking the convert option : > Latex(plain) to openoffice nothing happens and

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Ray Rashif
On 29 April 2013 07:02, Sotiris Hasapis wrote: > I ' m trying to convert lyx to odt file using the methods described here: > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice > but nothing seems to work. In fact when taking the convert option : > Latex(plain) to openoffice nothing happens and responds : "E

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 29 April 2013 07:02, Sotiris Hasapis wrote: I ' m trying to convert lyx to odt file using the methods described here: http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice but nothing seems to work. In fact when taking the convert option : Latex(plain) to openoffice nothing happens and responds : "Error

Re: Spanners in tables

2013-04-29 Thread John Kane
I suspect that tables are the curse of LaTeX/LyX at best.  I remember being horrified the first time I saw a LaTeX table layout. I suppose it depends on where your original numbers for the table are coming from but there may be some help.  I am just a real beginner with LyX (and LaTex too for

Compilation problem

2013-04-29 Thread Emil Pavlov
I have a large lyx document (several child documents, together around 60 pages) and sometimes I have problems compiling the pdf. I even cannot close lyx, because it says it is still compiling. 1. How can I interrupt the compilation? 2. How can I fix this? I have Lyx 2.0.5.1 on Linux mint 13. The

Re: Compilation problem

2013-04-29 Thread curtis osterhoudt
I ran into this problem just this weekend (using the 2.1.0 dev version of LyX on a debian-based system). I happen to have figured out what I did wrong, though it didn't have anything to do with forward/reverse searches; I thought the condition was interesting: I put some ERT into my document to

Lyx to ODT

2013-04-29 Thread Gordon Cooper
Another way, and I will admit to not having tested it, could be to produce a PDF from the Lyx file, then convert the PDF to Word, which can be read by Libre Office, tidied up, then saved as an odt. Gordon Cooper

Re: Lyx to ODT

2013-04-29 Thread Steve Litt
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 11:04:40 +1200 Gordon Cooper wrote: > Another way, and I will admit to not having tested it, > could be to produce a PDF from the Lyx file, then convert > the PDF to Word, which can be read by Libre Office, tidied > up, then saved as an odt. > > Gordon Cooper You'd lose all