The problem with a direct conversion, I'm gussing, is something like the
following (non-technical). LaTeX is a markup language. That means that even
when you get past LyX to LaTeX, your still doing the wysiwym thing, in a way.
But Word is wysiwyg.
Now, though I don't know how wysiwyg formatting code work, I'm guessing
that the control codes specify things like position on a page, etc., in an
absolute, rather than relative way-- which never ever corresponds to anything
LaTeX ever knows, even when it gets to dvi. The two simply are apples and
oranges.
Star/Open office is able to do the conversion to Word, and likewise KWord,
because they too are wysiwyg, and therefore their control codes are 'of a kind'
with Word's, and so its only a (albeit complicated) mapping of equivalences
between them.
I think I remember from the one time I installed (and immediately uninstalled)
KWord that it does export to TeX. But again, this feature is only a (weak)
attempt to guess what TeX code might generate something -like- what you see on
the screen in KWord (I guess). Note that despite the export feature, there is
(if I remember right) no corresponding import feature.
Is this explanation roughly on target, guys?
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001, you wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Some tex->html converters (for example, tth) do not use images for math,
> but use html code. However, I don't know if word can import such html files.
