Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-09-29, Simon wrote: I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents compatible with current MS word. As already said, LyX (as a LaTeX GUI) is not the best choice in this regard. You might consider using Docutils (http://docutils.sf.net) which (in the SVN version

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread rgheck
On 09/29/2009 09:26 PM, Simon wrote: I think you're right. I mainly thought LyX could output msword documents... but I've done my homework and read several pages on the website/wiki and seems like anything2msword is tricky! Since the file format is (still) barely documented and changes

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-09-29, Simon wrote: I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents compatible with current MS word. As already said, LyX (as a LaTeX GUI) is not the best choice in this regard. You might consider using Docutils (http://docutils.sf.net) which (in the SVN version

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread rgheck
On 09/29/2009 09:26 PM, Simon wrote: I think you're right. I mainly thought LyX could output msword documents... but I've done my homework and read several pages on the website/wiki and seems like anything2msword is tricky! Since the file format is (still) barely documented and changes

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread Guenter Milde
On 2009-09-29, Simon wrote: > I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents > compatible with current MS word. As already said, LyX (as a LaTeX GUI) is not the best choice in this regard. You might consider using Docutils (http://docutils.sf.net) which (in the SVN version

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-30 Thread rgheck
On 09/29/2009 09:26 PM, Simon wrote: I think you're right. I mainly thought LyX could output msword documents... but I've done my homework and read several pages on the website/wiki and seems like anything2msword is tricky! Since the file format is (still) barely documented and changes

(newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread Simon
hello world! Hi I'm Simon, I'm considering Lyx for my use, but I'd like your opinion before I try it. I'm currently downloading/compiling it on my gentoo desktop, so meanwhile I thought I'd ask! In a nutshell: I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents compatible with

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread rgheck
On 09/29/2009 07:13 PM, Simon wrote: While on the other hand, authoring documents with MS tools is extremely painful to me (i got the skin of a tux i guess!) and working with OpenOffice is also quite painful... I've tried converting HTML to Office documents and got great results sometimes,

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:13:30PM -0400, Simon wrote: I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents compatible with current MS word. The only way I've been able to get LyX or LaTeX documents into native Word format is to go by way of OpenOffice.org, and there are a bunch

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread Simon
Thanks a lot for the quick reply! Something like this can work, but conversion from LyX to * generally relies upon LyX-LaTeX-*, though there is an exception, namely, the elyxer LyX-HTML converter. Whether you'd get decent results with that, given the problems you said you already had with

(newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread Simon
hello world! Hi I'm Simon, I'm considering Lyx for my use, but I'd like your opinion before I try it. I'm currently downloading/compiling it on my gentoo desktop, so meanwhile I thought I'd ask! In a nutshell: I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents compatible with

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread rgheck
On 09/29/2009 07:13 PM, Simon wrote: While on the other hand, authoring documents with MS tools is extremely painful to me (i got the skin of a tux i guess!) and working with OpenOffice is also quite painful... I've tried converting HTML to Office documents and got great results sometimes,

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:13:30PM -0400, Simon wrote: I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents compatible with current MS word. The only way I've been able to get LyX or LaTeX documents into native Word format is to go by way of OpenOffice.org, and there are a bunch

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread Simon
Thanks a lot for the quick reply! Something like this can work, but conversion from LyX to * generally relies upon LyX-LaTeX-*, though there is an exception, namely, the elyxer LyX-HTML converter. Whether you'd get decent results with that, given the problems you said you already had with

(newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread Simon
"hello world!" Hi I'm Simon, I'm considering Lyx for my use, but I'd like your opinion before I try it. I'm currently downloading/compiling it on my gentoo desktop, so meanwhile I thought I'd ask! In a nutshell: I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents compatible with

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread rgheck
On 09/29/2009 07:13 PM, Simon wrote: While on the other hand, authoring documents with MS tools is extremely painful to me (i got the skin of a tux i guess!) and working with OpenOffice is also quite painful... I've tried converting HTML to Office documents and got great results sometimes,

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:13:30PM -0400, Simon wrote: > I need a programmer-friendly way to output good looking documents > compatible with current MS word. The only way I've been able to get LyX or LaTeX documents into native Word format is to go by way of OpenOffice.org, and there are a

Re: (newbie) Scripting, MSword and Lyx

2009-09-29 Thread Simon
Thanks a lot for the quick reply! > Something like this can work, but conversion from LyX to * generally relies > upon LyX->LaTeX->*, though there is an exception, namely, the elyxer > LyX->HTML converter. Whether you'd get decent results with that, given the > problems you said you already had