On 07/18/2018 02:01 PM, Jean-Pierre Chrétien wrote: > Le 18/07/2018 à 15:01, Neal Becker a écrit : > >> >> You got me curious, so I just tried exporting a ieee journal article >> to odt >> (pandoc). The result was pretty useless. I might as well have just >> converted to plain txt. >> >> > > Before I retired (and thus before pandoc), the only converter which > gave me usable results was latex2rtf, and I used it quite a lot.
For simple documents, that works reasonably well, in my experience. Indeed, for simple documents, lots of things work well. I've used LyX's own XHTML output and imported that into LibreOffice, for example. But for documents that are at all complex, nothing works very well. Especially if there are many formulas. That's really the issue, it seems to me. Very many people who use LaTeX do so because of how good it is with formulas. If converters can't handle that, then they won't be very useful to very many people. And then the problem is that formula support in ODT and DOCX is very primitive compared to what LaTeX can do, even without pstricks and tikz and the like. > From Document to latex, the result depends completely upon the > structure of the document. For relatively simple documents, LibreOffice's writer2latex works quite well, if you set it to use "Clean" or "Ultra-clean" mode. Riki
