Hi everyone, sorry for the late reply, I wasn't receiving alerts for the thread.
Actually Charles' first reply was the only one I saw before today but was useful enough. I would give me a fairly straight forward GoogleDoc -> LaTeX process. I started working my way from that point on. I'm right now not fully understanding the detailed content of all the replies, but as I have to write my doc in French, I understand the filtering need :) And finally, Luis' advice is the just great. I'll go for this. That really seems to be the way to go. But all in all, the weird thing is that I learn a lot about LaTeX in trying to find out a good publishing solution for my GoogleDocs, and I don't feel I really need LyX anymore. It seems better to me to master html2latex and LaTeX itself. I use GoogleDoc as a visual tool anyway :-/ -nodje Luis Rivera-3 wrote: > > Michael Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >> Dear Charles, >> It is very cool grasping how to use sed in however a primitive way. But >> on >> further investigation it seems one needs it for a LyX friendly use of >> ``writer2latex'' only if the document has tables, math, images ... or >> French. >> With a fairly wide but unscientifically chosen variety of English >> documents, I >> found that the desiderata of: >> (a) retaining crucial formatting that an English language Word or >> OpenOffice or >> docs.google user would likely employ >> and: >> (b) avoiding a demoralizing film of ERT >> by messing with the preferences in writer2latex.xml. >> > > Indeed, the script is not necessary if you edit the writer2latex.xml file > in > your system, as you've done already. All you need to do is to select the > appropriate encoding (latin9 is the most popular, after utf8 for latin > writing > systems, as you've found out). > > Personally, I prefer to avoid loading a full Office Suite to make the > conversion, so I bypass them by not saving my googledocs papers into word, > rtf, > or odf. Try saving your GoogleDocs documents as HTML, and then convert > them with > html2tex. Check > > http://www.iwriteiam.nl/html2tex.html > > All you need is a friendly gcc compiler (or a friend to give it to you), > and it > makes the whole work for you with a simple call to the converter. > > Perhaps you may have to call html-tidy to cleanup the HTML source a bit, > but a > simple bash script (or in windows, a bat file) will work. > > Small is beautiful, > > Luis. > > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Google-Docs-to-LaTeX-tp16790653p17009494.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
