> On Thursday 24 May 2007, Richard Heck wrote: > >> Tim Holy wrote: >> >>> At least in the biological sciences, most journals can't accept LaTeX, >>> and so it's important for us to be able to export to RTF format for final >>> submission of papers. >>> >> Try exporting to OpenDocument. In my experience, oolatex tends to be >> more reliable than latex2rtf, which hasn't seen an update in 2.5 years. >> > That sounds like a good answer to my problem; I'd actually never heard of > oolatex before. I had even spent some time googling for "latex2odf." > It's not exactly got an obvious name. > However, I'm having an unexpected degree of trouble getting oolatex to work. > First, for me neither LyX 1.4.3 nor LyX 1.5.0beta3 gives an OpenDoc option > under its list of export formats. (See the attached screen shot of the export > menu on my machine.) > LyX is looking for oolatex in your path. If it's not there, configure.py won't find it. If it is in your path, then configure.py should find it. Try running LyX from the command line and then reconfiguring. Watch the output for information about oolatex. > So I figured I'd have to export to LaTeX and then run oolatex from the > command > line. Next problem: oolatex does not seem to have a clear "home" on the net, > and doing an "apt-cache search oolatex" under Kubuntu Feisty (even with > universe & multiverse enabled) doesn't come up with anything. I guessed that > under Kubuntu one needs to install tex4ht. Yes, it's part of the tex4ht package. > I then found the oolatex > executable in /usr/share/tex4ht/ (it wasn't placed on the global path). I > added this directory to my path. But then running oolatex resulted in the > following output (note: 29 pages of output! For 2 lines of text?): > [snip] > There's some configuration problem here. On Fedora 6, this just works. Try asking about this on the Ubuntu list, or whatever there is along those lines.
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