On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote:
>> As for Word/OO<-->LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can >> LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when even the LaTeX/LyX roundtrip >> will not get you back the document you started from? It seems to me >> that a more reasonable goal would be to have a Word-output function >> that strips all formatting except the semantically relevant items >> (emphasis, etc) and produce a clean Word file ready to be imported >> into a typesetting program or to be sent to Word-only people. > Even better, in addition to exporting emphasis and noun, have it export the > named but empty styles (environments and character styles) used in the doc, > so > the word doc has the styles and the text marked up with those styles. Then > all > that remains is to go in and modify those styles in MSWord or OOffice to > produce the desired look. After all, modifying a style in Word is five > minutes, not five hours. > This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction... I think we should have "semantic" import/export filters in addition to "visual" ones for all relevant document formats. Günter
