> > I think that Abiword uses wv for importing, so it is probably better > to use wv directly for conversion from word to lyx
> Yes, I did a little searching and found you are right. I downloaded wv and performed an painless make/make install. wv then seemed to convert some word docs into LaTeX without any problem. It also worked really fast. Unfortunately, it can't convert RTF to LaTeX. This is ironic, because generally it is a good practice for Word users to save their file as RTF if they intend to share it, since RTF will open in any version of Word, as well as other word processors. Yet, if you get an RTF file, you can't use wv to convert it! > (in fact, if you have wv installed, lyx will autodetect it and create > an import->Word menu item. I have an older version of LyX which did not automatically detect wv. There is a problem with wv, however. If you have worked really hard to set up styles in Word (which you should always do!), then these styles will be lost using the wv convertor. If you convert an RTF document to XML, then you can perform a conversion and preserve your styles. Too bad wv doesn't have a Word to XML option. There really is a need for this. Maybe I'll try to induce the people at wv to work on this project. In the meantime I'll try to finish my perl script. Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* ************************
