Hello Prannoy,

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 5:06 PM, Prannoy Pilligundla
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I am almost done with LyX to ODT part of my project
>
This sounds most promising! A lot of LyX users are dying to have a
useful way to convert LyX documents to something Word-compatible.


> and I started work on
> the roundtrip i.e ODT to LyX part of the project. For LyX to ODT I converted
> LyX to LaTeX first and then used tex4ht for converting LaTeX to ODT. In case
> of math I am also storing the latex expression as it as in the ODT
> file(using annotation property) as meta data.
>
How can we test the feature, and where is the repo located? Also, are
there some test documents available?

Thanks,
Liviu


> Now for getting back to LyX from ODT I am thinking of writing a python
> script which does this conversion. As of now I am planning to use the xml
> parsers expat library.I also had a look at lyx2lyx scripts. I tried using
> Writer2LaTeX but it doesn't suit our purpose of getting back the same LyX
> file. I am not very clear on how to go ahead from this juncture. For example
> I am not clear on how I will get information about all the packages used
> from the ODT file. I feel I am not aware of many issues which need to be
> taken care of during this conversion process. It would be great to hear your
> comments and suggestions on how to go ahead
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Prannoy Pilligundla



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Do you think you know what math is?
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http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30
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