I tried the word->lyx way but it did not work. It could not convert some
parts of the table and gave some errors when I tried to view the dvi...
Thanks
Remzi
ps: I am going to try rtf2latex and see how it performs
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robin Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: Word2LaTex
> On Wednesday 09 May 2001 16:41, Jean-Pierre.Chretien wrote:
> > >>X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000
> > >>From: Remzi Seker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>To: Lyx Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >>Subject: Word2LaTex
> > >>Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 08:34:28 -0500
> > >>
> > >>Does anyone know of a good way to convert MS Word documents to Latex
or
> > >> Lyx (except for word2tex.com's product?) ;-) Since I dont have
formulas
> > >> in the document i have (tables), I exported the word document to
html.
> > >> Then, I realized latex2html is a one way program.
> > >>
> > >>Does anyone know how I can convert html documents to latex and so i
can
> > >>import them into lyx? If there is not a html2lyx that is...
> > >>
> > >>Thanks
> > >>
> > >>Remzi
> >
> > Have a look at rtf2latex2e (tries do deal with formulas as well).
> > Export to HTML from Word, and use html2latex is a mess in general
> > because the structure is lost (might be good for tables alone, but
> > seems to me that rtf2latex2e does a better job).
> >
> > The only drawback is that you need the end user to provide the rtf
> > (I'm not aware of a free batch doc->rtf converter).
>
> WORD -> LyX
> I find recent versions of wv are OK at reading Word documents (use
> wvCleanLatex - LyX will autodetect this in any case).
>
> HTML -> LyX
> There is a html2latex program available somewhere, though not as an RPM
last
> time I looked.
