>> > Hi,
>> > I exported to a LaTeX file, then tried a utility called
>> > "latex2rtf", which is supposed to generate a Rich
>> > Text Format file that is Microsoft compatible.
>> > But, it aborts.
>>
>> I got problems with latex2rtf some time ago too...
IMHO, you can forget latex2rtf:
- it has beeen written for LaTeX2.09 and i never found an\
updated version for latex2e,
- RTF in not stable enough to allow exporting towards the
(many) versions of Word, so that it may work with W5 on Mac
and hang on W6 on mac and W6 on Windows (to my experience)
> Then I tried "latex2html" and that just hangs.
I use (quite successfully) LaTeX2HTML 97 and 98
to get a single document in HTML, and then
import from HTML in Word for Windows.
Works OK for sectioning and tables, messy for figures
if resizing is needed
(but you may ask latex2HTML to retain postscript instead of
gif - still a bit messy beause postscript is inserted in Word, but
not shown on screen, and wot well understood in the M$ world anyway).
The formulas are images in latex2HTML, which can
be correctly imported, but the result may be awful.
I mostly use the utility to handle
parts of simple documents to Word users. For a complicated technical document
involving formulas, tables and figures, I rather try to forward
the postscript image as is than the source, so I didn't dig
very deeply in the problem of figure and formulas transcription.
>>
>> ???
>>
>> > So, does anyone know of any conversion utility
>> > that can convert a Lyx document to a form that
>> > can be imported to MS Word and retains most of
>> > the formating?
>> > And that works?
>>
>> Me, I know one programm named tth from
>>
>> http://hutchinson.belmont.ma.us/tth/
>>
>> That works quite good converting Latex-Files to HTML.
I think that the problems are the same once translated to HTML
when you import in Word, but for formulas (which are not images
with tth, but symbol characters, as far as I understood).
Regards
--
Jean-Pierre
