Rob, This sounds very nice! Any ideas about whether you will be able to support cross references and translate that into LyX/LaTeX labels/references? James
On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Rob Oakes <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Users and Developers, > > I wanted to give everyone a quick status update on what I've been doing > with the Word to LyX importer. > > Over the past couple of weeks, I've been working on it full steam and it's > now pretty functional. It supports: > > 1. Translating Word paragraph and character styles to LyX paragraph > and character styles. In the case of character styles that aren't defined, > it will write entries for them into the local layout (including basic LaTeX > commands). > 2. Importing Word tables, including those with merged rows or columns. > It will also do its best with the table borders. > 3. Enumerated and itemized lists. > 4. Importing images from the Word document. (It skips over embedded > objects, such as charts from Excel.) > 5. The use of custom templates, which allows you to fine tune > importing your documents. I've created templates for article.cls and > book.cls. I'll also probably create one for memoir.cls as well. > > Before release, I still need to implement support for footnotes and > endnotes (which is pretty easy). > > Which brings me to the main reason I'm writing. Before releasing the code, > I'd really like to test it on a couple of "in the wild" documents. It does > pretty well on the test documents I've thrown at it from my own library. > But ... that's just me. I use Word in a very particular way. > > If there's anyone who wouldn't mind, I'd really like to throw other test > documents at it. If you would be willing to donate one, please let me know. > This would allow me to check a wide variety of work and nail down a couple > more issues before a public test. I will keep all documents confidential > and delete after I've finished testing. > > If everything goes well, I'll release the 0.1 version (which will still > need quite some cleaning up) early next week. > > Cheers, > > Rob >
