On Feb 8, 2006, at 02:28, John Pye wrote:
Hi all,
Can anyone offer any comments on what would be the 'safest path'
for converting Framemaker files into Docbook Lyx files?
I can only give my own experience and don't know wether that's the
safest path but it did work for me.
I converted a paper from framemaker to lyx which did not require much
tweaking afterwards.
The paper contained equations, figures and references but
(unfortunately) no tables, therefore I cannot comment on that
specific problem.
Once I wrote a XSLT stylesheet to transform a mif-file into an xml-
file; I think this is a safe route since the mif-file contains
everything.
But since framemaker became framemaker+sgml I use the xml-export
feature of framemaker. My only problem here are the equations which
are by default exported as pictures (not acceptable to me). The only
solution was to write a plug-in for framemaker which exports the
mathfullform-expression instead of the picture.
I then convert the resulting xml-file in a 2-step process:
1) with a first stylesheet the mathfullform expressions are converted
to mathml;
2) with a 2nd stylesheet the resulting xml-file (with mathml-
equations) is converted to tex using the xsltml package (http://
xsltml.sourceforge.net/) to convert the mathml equations.
Regards
Patrick De Visschere
...
Any suggestions?
Would I have more luck trying this with new new 1.4 version?
Cheers
JP
PS the document's I'm trying to transform are actually these:
http://ascend.cheme.cmu.edu/pdfhelp.htm
for which the source material is at
https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn-view/ascend/documentation/trunk/mif/?
rev=338
