IMHO it is unlikely that math-heavy documents are produced by anything
but Latex/Lyx.
I applaud the initiative to make MS-WORD/Lyx conversion easier. I am
sure it will have
many appreciative users.
EK
On 02/02/2012 10:55 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 02/01/2012 03:11 PM, Xu Wang wrote:
Hey Rob, that sounds like quite a nice project you have in mind!
My two cents: it's not worth carrying it out if you can't get the
math to import somewhat well. That seems to be the biggest problem
with most ways of converting doc to lyx. I understand it's very
difficult, but I think it's also the most important.
As far as I remember, the main complaint about writer2latex has been
that it produces ugly LaTeX. In the latest versions of LibreOffice,
however, there is an option to export "Ultra-clean" LaTeX, which works
pretty well. Of course, this relies upon Libre's importing Word's math
well. So for math heavy documents, that seems a good way to go at the
moment.
Richard
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