How to automatically display all equations as intuitive formulas in LyX?

[Hongyi Zhao]

On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 9:46 PM Udicoudco <udifoglle at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 4:15 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 9:00 PM Udicoudco <udifoglle at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 3:36 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 8:27 PM Udicoudco <udifoglle at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 3:18 PM Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > > > > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2023 at 1:33 PM Stefano Simonucci
> > > > > > <stefanosimonucci.sim at alice.it> wrote:
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> > > > > > > If I understand your question, you should open the following menu:
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> > > > > > > Tools --> Preferences. Then in the window Lyx: Prefrences you have to
> > > > > > > open the menu: Look & Feel --> Display.
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> > > > > > > and to set On the Instant preview
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> > > > > > I've enabled this option, but the formulae still show as LaTeX
> > > > > > commands. See the attachment for more details.
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> > > > > > > Stefano
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> > > > > > Regards,
> > > > > > Zhao
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> > > > > Instead of copy a LaTeX code try to import it via
> > > > > File->Import->LaTeX (Plain).
> > > > > Then the equations should appear in a new LyX file,
> > > > > and you can copy them from there.
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> > > > This method really fixed the problem of equations display, but the
> > > > Chinese characters are displayed as chaos, as shown in the attached
> > > > file.
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> > > In what encodings the latex
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> > See the following for encoding info of the original TeX file which is
> > being imported into LyX:
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> > werner at X10DAi:~$ encguess test.tex
> > test.tex    UTF-8
> > werner at X10DAi:~$ uchardet test.tex
> > UTF-8
> > werner at X10DAi:~$ file -i test.tex
> > test.tex: text/plain; charset=utf-8
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> > > and LyX files are written?
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> > I don't know what do you mean by saying this. I just do the import via
> > File->Import->LaTeX (Plain).
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> You need to add \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} to the latex preamble so that LyX will
> know what is the correct encoding.
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> Attached is a .tex file that  I successfully imported to LyX (I think), the text is taken
> from here.

Thank you very much, and it does the trick.

Best,
Zhao