I know of many of the conversion apps for latex (dvi2rtf, latex2rtf,
latex2html, etc) but I have been unable to use any of them to successfully
transfer a lyx document to word.
I know about the loss of formatting and fancy fonts in going to rtf but what
really threw me was that my citations and bibliography for the paper do not
transfer. When I look at the dvi view of my document, I see all the proper
citations and the reference page is also correct. Running dvi2rtf, however,
leaves me with only the text of the body, no citations and no references. I
don't get it. If the processed dvi view of the document contains the
references and citations, why doesn't the rtf file that it proceeds from it
with dvi2rtf? Using latex2rtf is the same way. Converting to html is worse,
as it converts all my symbols and superscripts to image files that do not
display properly.
I need to transfer my lyx document to word. I would really like to keep the
citations and reference page intact, knowing that I will need to reformat the
paragraphs, fonts, etc, but at least not have to redo all the citations.
Is there no decent intermediary format that will faithfully transfer a lyx
document to word (by faithfully, again, I merely mean that the body text,
citations, and reference page actually transfers)?
Since there are some pretty decent word filters now available - from
staroffice - now openoffice - and koffice, to name two, can't this filter be
incorporated into lyx as an export filter? Or perhaps create a conversion
app that will convert latex or dvi to word, keeping as much of the font types
and citations/references as possible?
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