On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:48 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Rainer M Krug <r.m.k...@gmail.com> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote: >>> 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. >> >> I absolutely agree - this would make life so much easier: you can write >> in LyX, export sematically to doc / odt and do the formating in word / >> openoffice / libreoffice if the editor / conference only provides a >> specific word template. >> >> Definitely a priority. >> > This might go down well as a GSoC project, as it seems useful and > "simple" enough. What do others think? > Liviu
Excellent idea, I think. Perhaps Richard can comment on how far the XHTML filter is from the goal? My impression, as a user, is that it comes pretty close to what the project would be producing. Stefano
