>>Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:33:40 -0600
>>From: "Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: From lyx to word
>>
>>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?
>>--
>>Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.
I just wrote a short perl filter to incorporate the .bbl file in
the original tex file (as LaTeX does, in fact).
IMHO, the result in Word is not very nice compared to the import
of the latex2html result (which is in fact one seldom case where
the import from HTML gives satisfactory results).
--
Jean-Pierre
