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For instance:

  1. Copy enter image description here
  2. Paste in a new location
  3. Result: x^{2}

LyX 2.0.4 (new)/MiKTeX/Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit

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I assume that you consider this a problem, and that you would like the formatted version instead. Where are you pasting it to? – Niel de Beaudrap Nov 2 '12 at 15:47
@NieldeBeaudrap Your assumptions are correct. I paste it to the same document. – Evan Aad Nov 2 '12 at 15:59
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I wish PDFs worked like that :) – dominikh Nov 2 '12 at 22:37

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Since you are copying within LyX math-mode, you are in fact copying the raw TeX. Simply create a new equation using Ctrl-M (or whatever you've bound it to be) and then paste.

Unfortunately, there is no good way around this problem internally without significant changes to the program logic.

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Thanks. The problem is: i usually copy-and-paste not single formulas, but whole paragraphs containing many formulas. Am i doomed? – Evan Aad Nov 2 '12 at 16:22
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There might be an easy way around that in the program logic, actually. Unfortunately, it's more a feature request than some problem to be fixed. – Sean Allred Nov 2 '12 at 16:53
In a WYSIWYG editor i'd consider it a critical bug. – Evan Aad Nov 2 '12 at 16:59
There is a good argument for either. WYSIWYG should be innately intuitive, and all environments that are encompassed in a selection should carry with their environments. – Sean Allred Nov 2 '12 at 18:08
I do not have LyX installed at the moment, but I seem to remember that you can select the TeX formula, press Ctrl-M, and it will convert it into math. – Jan Hlavacek Nov 20 '12 at 5:16
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If you mark inside the math block, you have to paste into another math block. Otherwise you would resolve the math TeX-Code into your normal text.

You may also mark the block and surronding normal text and paste it somewhere else. As of LyX 2.0.4 on my old windows machine in the office, this does not always work. After restarting LyX, it usually works. On linux, I have not encountered this problem.

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