----- Original Message -----
From: "Eugeny N Dzhurinsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 2:10 AM
Subject: LyX -> MS Word
Is there any way to convert the LyX document into the MS word file? The
document contains the set of EPS emages.
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Eugene N Dzhurinsky
Yes. I use View as PDF which opens Acrobat.exe and creates a pdf file.
Then I use Acrobat Writer to save as a Word .doc file. But is a theorem,
that unless two languages have exactly the same symbols/rules, there will
be expressions which are not exactly translatable from one language into
the other language. Practically speaking, it means both formats may not
share all of the same fonts for rendering, thus there are approximations.
Which means you will have to proofread and retype parts of the conversion.
Only conversions between very simple documents in two formats can be
expected to translate with high accuracy... Some people want their thesis
converted from .lyx to .doc. I think the supervisor can edit the document
by inserting comments into the .pdf document; I seem to recall seeing a
reference to inserting comments into pdf docs in the help files. But then
the supervisor may not be willing to learn a new method for editing.
From Google:
I have to convert a 40 page \LaTeX{} document to WORD.
"If you have AdobeAcrobat, you can also try this:
Create a pdf-file from the tex-sources via pdflatex.
Open the pdf-file with AdobeAcrobat and try to save it as rtf-file (or
alternatively as html-file).
Open the rtf-file (respective html-file) with Word and convert it to
doc-format. Sometimes it works."
Try LaTeX2rtf (http://sourceforge.net/projects/latex2rtf) or if you want
to run the conversion on a PC where Word is installed, try TeX2Word
(http://www.tex2word.com, 30 day trial version).
SH: Now to a better solution suggested by the expert Fabrice Popineuu:
"If you have tex4ht installed (available from texlive for example) then
conversion to html using the htlatex program/script is fine. MSWord is
able to read html."
SH: Just as translations from Latin languages like French and English are
easier to make and read in comparison to Russian or Hindi, Tex and LyX have
common roots, so algorithms for TeX conversions to other formats will be
more closely logically related. In theory, documents converted from LyX to
tex and then back again should work better than only Tex to Lyx.
I mention all this because I was at first astounded that converting between
formats wasn't a perfected science. The lyx doc, fr_mathed.lyx displays
nearly perfectly as pdf (which seems garbled in lyx1.3.6_pre_21) so I think
commenting to a pdf doc is the best solution. The display as a Word doc file
stinks in comparison.
http://www.adobe.com/products/server/readerextensions/main.html
"AdobeR LiveCycleT ReaderR Extensions software allows you to easily share
interactive, intelligent Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) documents with
external parties - without requiring respondents to invest in costly
software. With LiveCycle Reader Extensions, you can extend your
document-based processes outside your business, while accurately capturing
critical data from customers, partners, constituents, and colleagues.
* Activate hidden functionality within Adobe Reader.
* Enable end users to save, fill in, annotate, sign, and submit PDF
documents.
SH: Buying Adobe LiveCycle Reader Extensions is the optimal, legal solution
to your problem because everybody has Adobe Reader and the display/printing
for pdf files is as good if not better than Word. Otherwise you'll need to
do proofreading and editing of another convervsion method. Maybe somebody
knows of an Opensource substitute for LiveCycle, maybe in OpenOffice? This
converting business is not as easy as it seems.
Regards,
Stephen
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