>>>>> "David" == David C Brown N2RJT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
David> On Thu, 14 Jan 1999, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>> I've found that a conference I'm submitting papers to requires that
>> "Attachments should be in MS Word 7.0 or WordPerfect 8.0 or lower
>> version."
David> Not a solution for you here and now, but this need does bring
David> up a possible future feature... couldn't we teach LyX to
David> produce .DOC files? As a starting point, perhaps one might
David> find an existing TeX -> DOC converter? I don't know .. I'm a
David> dumb user in this arena, the idea just occurred to me.
The problem is that the .doc format is:
- not really documented (I think)
- contains OLE streams which are similar to a complete file system to
implement, AFAIK
- of course completely different between versions of word (which one
would you choose?)
- a proprietary format and, as such, evil.
JMarc
