On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Alex Fernandez <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi Rob, > > There is already a registered converter for MS Word. It uses HTML > formatting, which Word can import without too much trouble. > Unfortunately eLyXer (using the --html option) is not used for this > task, even though IMHO it produces better output in most cases. > > In my, very recent, experience, there are several converters Lyx->Word, but no *robust* one. Problems I encountered yesterday trying to convert a relatively simple 15-pages lyx file that compiled perfectly to pdf into word: -- all character sequences including ligatures (ff, ffi, etc) disappearing, silently, from the output --- all accented characters being converted into the wrong glyphs --- tables mangled beyond recognition, or simply (again, silently) suppressed from the output --- images missing, or distorted, or resized to full page, etcetera -- many other problems that I now (happily) forget I tried everything I could find: the lyx html(word) export, html export, and oolatex (all variations of htlatex, I seem to remember), hevea, tth, latex2rtf, elixer I eventually managed to produce something barely acceptable, but it was a nightmare. S. > Of course you are never going to get good Math with an HTML > intermediate step, but text and some formatting is readily imported > into Word. Same for OpenOffice.org Writer. This is enough for many > people. If you have any further suggestions please let me know. > > Thanks, > > Alex. > -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Department of Philosophy Ph: (1) 979 862-2211 Texas A&M University Fax: (1) 979 845-0458 College Station, Texas, USA
