[posted and mailed] Aric Gregson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:r02010100-1028- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
> My first use of Lyx/LateX has been trying to convert a messy MS Word > document from .rtf into Lyx. I have essentially created it anew from > within Lyx, but it has been a tremendous amount of work. > > I tried to convert the document using wvWare and rtf2latex2e (either > .doc or .rtf, respectively) to no effect. wvWare uniformly crashes and > rft2latex2e gets about 3 pages into the document for crashing from > imageMagick error. I have reinstalled all without any improvement. > > Using Lyx 1.3.4, Mac OSX 10.2.8. I have tried to compile word2x on my > machine, but it doesn't seem to make correctly. > > Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. > > thanks, > > aric > Can't speak from experience, but I believe some people advocate using Word to export an HTML file, then an HTML-to-LaTeX converter, then importing the LaTeX file into LyX. My guess is that you'll need to retype any equations from scratch, and I'm not sure about graphics. You might check an archive of the group -- questions about converting to/from Word pop up periodically. -- Paul ************************************************************************* Paul A. Rubin Phone: (517) 432-3509 Department of Management Fax: (517) 432-1111 The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~rubin/ East Lansing, MI 48824-1122 (USA) ************************************************************************* Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whenever you say something to them, they translate it into their own language, and at once it is something entirely different. J. W. v. GOETHE
