On May 1, 2013, at 5:21 AM, ehud.kaplan wrote: > I had tried to convert from a Lyx document (a Ph.D. thesis, ~140 pages) to > LibreOffice (File/Export/HTML). Much of it worked, but there were many > problems: > • Equation numbers moved from right to left > • Figures were totally distorted (size scaled up), > • Some equations and algorithms were mangled > • Several sections appeared centered instead of being left justified as > they were originally. > Using File/Export/LYXHTML produced similar results, although the equation > numbers were not mangled. > In short, such conversions do a lot, but they also leave a lot for manual > fixing. I suspect that if such a path were available, many more people would > use Lyx.
I agree, as do many others. A while back I spent a lot of time evaluating the various ways to convert LyX to .odt or .docx and found that none of them work well. (Apologies to those who are reading this who have actually worked on the problem and made substantial progress.) Some work with certain restricted sets of features but add an equation or something else and they break. One would hope with all the talk on the developers' list recently with the Google Summer of Code that this would be at the top of the list of things to do. Jerry > -- > Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. > Jules & Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor > Director, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience > Director, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience > The Friedman Brain Institute > Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology, > The Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai > One Gustave Levy Place, > NY, NY, 10029 > > > > > > On 04/29/2013 08:52 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: >> On 29 April 2013 07:02, Sotiris Hasapis <shasa...@gmail.com> >> 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 while >>> exporting format: odtFile 'C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/Local >>> Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp4792/lyx_tmpbuf3/Some_aspects_of_group-based_cryptograhpy.tex' >>> was not closed properly." >>> Any help please? >>> >>> I'm using windows xp, lyx 2.0. >>> Thank you. >>> Sotiris. >>> >> From experience this has never proven useful. Interoperability is an >> issue here with LyX and other word processors. Even if one conversion >> succeeds (to either a .doc, .docx, .odt or .rtf), you'd likely need to >> do some clean-up here and there. >> >> A fine compromise I have found is to use elyxer¹ as an intermediary >> tool. Its HTML output is beautiful, and it works with complex >> parent-child lyx documents including figures. You could also take a >> look at pandoc (via LaTeX).² >> >> ¹ >> http://elyxer.nongnu.org/ >> >> ² >> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ >> >> >> >> -- >> GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1 >> >
