I may have a second person who wants his "large document" produced with
LaTeX (and LyX), so I am now thinking more seriously about shortcuts for
conversion from Word to LyX. Some I've already figured out and are a
piece of cake. Quotes, for example. I do the conversion beforehand using
OpenOffice's S/R feature as follows (for German quotes):
S: [smart left double] R: ,,
S: [smart right double] R: ``
etc.
But I am still stuck with the footnotes (and some people have hundreds).
Naturally, in cases where the doc has not yet been written, I can simply
say, "leave them inline between double brackets" [[Like this.]] and then
do a search and replace to add the LyX or LaTeX coding, but what about
existing documents?
The best I've come up with so far is this:
1. Tell OpenOffice to place all footnotes at end of document.
2. Export to PDF
3. Open with Acrobat and save as text.
4. Run through quick filter (to be written still) that:
a) reads in all footnotes from end of doc
b) replaces each footnote number in text with footnote and
LyX formatting (I think this will work because the footnote
numbers should always be followed by a space and are sequential.)
Any other tips or suggestions are welcome. I tried the wv/reLyX solution
but reLyX failed on my test file with this error:
Reading LaTeX command syntax
(Kapitel3-001.tex: Splitting Preamble
Creating LyX preamble
Reading layout file
Cleaning... Expecting `$', got \end in `
[...]
-Kevin
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Kevin Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Tiros-Translations
