John Pye wrote: > Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path' for > converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files?
You know http://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~pablo/mif2lyx/ ? It is somewhat limited, but it might be possible to extend it. Is a (nearly) lossless conversion from framemaker to latex possible? Then you could use tex2lyx (see http://wiki.lyx.org/LaTeX/LatexToLyx) to produce the LyX files. If tex2lyx fails to convert something then it is probably easy to fix. The big advantage of this method is that you don't have to worry about the LyX format. Another possibility would be to read the MIF or XML files with a python script and use $LYXDIR/lib/lyx2lyx/LyX.py to create the LyX document. LyX.py has no support for tables yet, so you'll have to write that, but this would need to happen sometimes anyway. > Would I have more luck trying this with new new 1.4 version? Maybe, since you might use one of the new features of 1.4, e.g. character styles or extended boxes. Apart from that, both LyX.py and tex2lyx produce 1.4 files. They can be converted by lyx2lyx to 1.3 format. This conversion is lossless if no new 1.4 features are used. Georg
