Ken wrote:
Hi. There is a Wiki page on importing Scientific Workplace (SWP) documents into LyX: http://wiki.lyx.org/FAQ/ImportingFromSWP but I can not seem to find any information on import a LyX document into SWP.I love using LyX but my co-author uses Scientific Word/Workplace. I don't want to have to buy a copy for myself but I am not able export my LyX documents in a way that he can import them. I have tried in LyX File->Export->LaTeX but when I try to import that into SWP I get the error: "Error while reading paragraph 13. Document has been truncated." followed by "A serious program error has occurred. ...{various dump and support information}" and SWP crashes. Is there any advice on how I can export LyX to SWP as I love LyX and really, really don't want to have to buy/learn SWP.
It is definitely cheaper for your co-author to "buy" LyX, than it is for you to buy SWP. There won't be any budget problems, even if he only uses LyX for this one book. If you really like LyX, then perhaps you can help him install LyX and get him started with it? As for problems with SWP crashing, that is something you have to complain to SWP developers about. It is *possible* to change the latex output from LyX to accomodate SWP import, _if_ you can find a developer interested in doing so. Even so, it won't appear until the next release. Currently nothing can be done, as we have no idea what it is that cause SWP trouble. And the LyX developers tend to use LyX mostly, so are not likely to figure this out on their own. Helge Hafting
