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Subject: Re: Export to plain text garbled
From: Charles de Miramon <cmiramon () kde-france ! org>
Date: 2008-03-10 11:24:33
Message-ID: fr35ph$44r$1 () ger ! gmane ! org
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All is discovered--flee at once! wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using LyX 1.5.3 on Ubuntu 6.06. (I've never used LaTeX or LyX
> before.) I'm trying to export a LyX document to plain text and it's coming
> out garbled. I've also tried using all three PDF export options (dvipdfm,
> pdflatex, ps2pdf), opening the result in Acrobat Reader, and saving as
> text.
> They each come out garbled as well, in their own unique ways. So far the
> best way I've found of exporting to a text file is selecting all in the
> LyX display, then copying and pasting into a text editor like gedit,
> adding manually editing any references to section numbers and stripping
> out any latex formatting.
>
> There must be a better way to do this, right? Do I have to do some
> special
> character encoding voodoo or something? (I've tried searching for a
> solution, but apparently I haven't come up with the magic phrase that will
> cause Google to produce results relevant to my needs.)
>
> Is this something that will be fixed in 1.6 and I should just suck it up
> and wait?
>
> -Mel
The plain text that LyX exports is UTF-8 encoded. You have to change in your
editor the encoding to ungarble it.
Cheers,
Charles
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