Hello Rob To echo others, it's great that you'd like to work on this.
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Rob Oakes <rob.oa...@oak-tree.us> wrote: > What features would you consider essential? > > (Right now, styles based conversion looks pretty easy -- going from Heading > 1 in Word to Chapter, for example. But I'm not sure how well it would > convert maths. This is something I'll still need to look at, and may require > writing an additional module.) > Reasonably fussless import of .doc in LyX, and reasonably fussless export from LyX to .doc. > Does the script need to support special cases, such as importing Word "track > changes"? > Although I do appreciate others' arguments for having this, I would believe that it's more of a perk. If your tool can simply translate from Word to LyX, and vice-versa (I'm not talking of 'round-trip'), the it would already be a great achievement. Accepting track changes can be done in Word (and LibreOffice, I assume). > Just how important do you consider "round-tripping" a document, e.g., going > from LyX to Word and back to LyX. > I'm afraid this is more like chasing a wild goose. If LyX has a hard time to round-trip to LaTeX, as it currently is more or less, then I'm sceptical that round-trips to Word can be more reliable. It would be great, however, to be able to reasonably import .doc in LyX, and reasonably export from LyX to .doc. Reliable round-tripping should be more of a secondary goal. Regards Liviu
