Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-14 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote: On 05/01/2013 11:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: A while back I spent a lot of time evaluating the various ways to convert LyX to .odt or .docx and found that

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-14 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Richard Heck rgh...@lyx.org wrote: On 05/01/2013 11:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: A while back I spent a lot of time evaluating the various ways to convert LyX to .odt or .docx and found that

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-14 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/01/2013 11:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry wrote: >> >>> A while back I spent a lot of time evaluating the various ways to >>> convert LyX to .odt or

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-04 Thread Sam Lewis
Sotiris Hasapis shasapis at gmail.com writes: 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. Does any have some success converting lyx documents that use biblatex. There seem to be considerable

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-04 Thread Sam Lewis
Sotiris Hasapis shasapis at gmail.com writes: 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. Does any have some success converting lyx documents that use biblatex. There seem to be considerable

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-04 Thread Sam Lewis
Sotiris Hasapis gmail.com> writes: > 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. Does any have some success converting lyx documents that use biblatex. There seem to be considerable more

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-03 Thread Jerry
On May 1, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: 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. You seemed more impressed a few

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-03 Thread Jerry
On May 1, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: 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. You seemed more impressed a few

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-03 Thread Jerry
On May 1, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry wrote: > >> 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. > > You seemed more

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I have really had rather nice results using the commercial (but with quite a cheap educational price) tex2word filter for Word, including equations, but excluding figures (you need to reinsert them). Unfortunately, I have not tried it with a recent version of Word, so I cannot say if it continues

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 May 2013, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: I have really had rather nice results using the commercial (but with quite a cheap educational price) tex2word filter for Word, including equations, but excluding figures (you need to reinsert them). Unfortunately, I have not tried it with a

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
This is true. I was assuming that you had Word on the computer, which is my case, because my University uses this format for administrative documents, and some of them do not like to travel through the docx-odt-docx conversion channel... 2013/5/2 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk On 02

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 05/01/2013 11:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: 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. You seemed more impressed a few months ago

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread EK
I was not going into WORD but into LibreOffice Writer. I realize the difficulties in such conversions, but I do have colleague who will not use anything but MS-WORD, and I do collaborate with them on some manuscripts. It is much less of a problem for a short paper.

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Nico Williams
A quick search for odt xslt finds some possibly useful tools and other things: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13031514/html-to-odt-xslt http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odftools http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/ODTransform http://open.comsultia.com/docbook2odf/

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I have really had rather nice results using the commercial (but with quite a cheap educational price) tex2word filter for Word, including equations, but excluding figures (you need to reinsert them). Unfortunately, I have not tried it with a recent version of Word, so I cannot say if it continues

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 May 2013, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: I have really had rather nice results using the commercial (but with quite a cheap educational price) tex2word filter for Word, including equations, but excluding figures (you need to reinsert them). Unfortunately, I have not tried it with a

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
This is true. I was assuming that you had Word on the computer, which is my case, because my University uses this format for administrative documents, and some of them do not like to travel through the docx-odt-docx conversion channel... 2013/5/2 Anthony Campbell a...@acampbell.org.uk On 02

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 05/01/2013 11:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: 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. You seemed more impressed a few months ago

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread EK
I was not going into WORD but into LibreOffice Writer. I realize the difficulties in such conversions, but I do have colleague who will not use anything but MS-WORD, and I do collaborate with them on some manuscripts. It is much less of a problem for a short paper.

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Nico Williams
A quick search for odt xslt finds some possibly useful tools and other things: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13031514/html-to-odt-xslt http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odftools http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/ODTransform http://open.comsultia.com/docbook2odf/

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
I have really had rather nice results using the commercial (but with quite a cheap educational price) tex2word filter for Word, including equations, but excluding figures (you need to reinsert them). Unfortunately, I have not tried it with a recent version of Word, so I cannot say if it continues

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 May 2013, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: >I have really had rather nice results using the commercial (but with quite >a cheap educational price) tex2word filter for Word, including equations, >but excluding figures (you need to reinsert them). Unfortunately, I have >not tried it

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Murat Yildizoglu
This is true. I was assuming that you had Word on the computer, which is my case, because my University uses this format for administrative documents, and some of them do not like to travel through the docx-odt-docx conversion channel... 2013/5/2 Anthony Campbell > On 02

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 05/01/2013 11:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry wrote: 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. You seemed more impressed a few months

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread EK
I was not going into WORD but into LibreOffice Writer. I realize the difficulties in such conversions, but I do have colleague who will not use anything but MS-WORD, and I do collaborate with them on some manuscripts. It is much less of a problem for a short paper.

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-02 Thread Nico Williams
A quick search for "odt xslt" finds some possibly useful tools and other things: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13031514/html-to-odt-xslt http://opendocumentfellowship.com/projects/odftools http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/ODF_Toolkit/Efforts/ODTransform http://open.comsultia.com/docbook2odf/

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread ehud.kaplan
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: 1. Equation numbers moved from right to left 2. Figures were totally distorted (size scaled up), 3. Some equations and algorithms were

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread Nico Williams
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:21 AM, ehud.kaplan ehud.kap...@gmail.com 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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread Jerry
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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: 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. You seemed more impressed a few months ago :) Mostly successful experiment: LyX - LaTeX -

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread David L. Johnson
On 05/01/2013 10:59 PM, Jerry wrote: 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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread ehud.kaplan
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: 1. Equation numbers moved from right to left 2. Figures were totally distorted (size scaled up), 3. Some equations and algorithms were

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread Nico Williams
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:21 AM, ehud.kaplan ehud.kap...@gmail.com 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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread Jerry
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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry lancebo...@qwest.net wrote: 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. You seemed more impressed a few months ago :) Mostly successful experiment: LyX - LaTeX -

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread David L. Johnson
On 05/01/2013 10:59 PM, Jerry wrote: 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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread ehud.kaplan
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: 1. Equation numbers moved from right to left 2. Figures were totally distorted (size scaled up), 3. Some equations and algorithms were

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread Nico Williams
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:21 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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread Jerry
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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread Scott Kostyshak
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry wrote: > 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. You seemed more impressed a few months ago :) "Mostly successful experiment: LyX ->

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-05-01 Thread David L. Johnson
On 05/01/2013 10:59 PM, Jerry wrote: 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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 29. April 2013, 01:02:12 schrieb Sotiris Hasapis: 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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Ray Rashif
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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Heck
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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 29. April 2013, 01:02:12 schrieb Sotiris Hasapis: 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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Ray Rashif
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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Heck
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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Wolfgang Engelmann
Am Montag, 29. April 2013, 01:02:12 schrieb Sotiris Hasapis: > 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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Ray Rashif
On 29 April 2013 07:02, Sotiris Hasapis 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

Re: Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-29 Thread Richard Heck
On 29 April 2013 07:02, Sotiris Hasapis 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

Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-28 Thread Sotiris Hasapis
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

Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-28 Thread Sotiris Hasapis
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

Converting lyx to odt

2013-04-28 Thread Sotiris Hasapis
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