2010/3/10 Νίκος Αλεξανδρής <[email protected]>: > Just FYI, > > if you don't know already the tool 'catdoc' (quotting from its official > web-page [1]): > > "is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs > text, contained insinde them to standard output." > ... > > "Optionaly, catdoc is able to translate some non-ASCII chars into > correspoindig TeX escape sequences and convert charsets from Windows > ANSI codepage to local codepage of target machine." > > > I ran a quick test on a "greek" .doc file and it looks good (=gives > clean text). The "Import > MS-Word..." tool from within LyX gave a very > messy content. > > Regards, Nikos > > --- > [1] http://wagner.pp.ru/~vitus/software/catdoc/ >
That could be very handy - particularly if you can clean-up characters that TeX/LaTeX/LyX don't t recognise -- Stephen
