-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 08/03/12 09:57, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 08/03/2012 09:21, Rainer M Krug a écrit : >> I hope that you or somebody else will find time to look into this >> - my co-workers want to have all comments and track changes in >> the document they get and they complain that the doc I send them >> looks "different" after I imported it into LyX, made the changes >> asked for, and converted it back to doc... > > Seeing what can happen when editing documents with different > versions of word (or word vs openoffice), I think that trying to > get good round-trip support is a loss of time.
I would love to agree, but round-trip is what is needed most of the time. An import word2lyx is perfect, but in most cases only half the story. I would use it extensively if the round trip is possible. Obviously, we can not deal with the word-editing side (whatever program is used for that). > People will take this as a promise and complain that it does not > work well enough. Well - one could state that the round-trip works for MS word version abcd, and other versions can / will / might cause problems which are not in our hands. > > The difference of structure between word and lyx are too important > to be able to work in a word<->LyX collaboration IMO. There are obviously basic difference in how LyX and word are viewing documents, and these lead to principal differences how the files are saved. But I am thinking that if one can import a docx file into LyX, one should be able to do the reverse. And one should be able to define a robust subset of features which are maintained when doing a round-trip. In the same way that certain features are not converted in word2lyx, lyx2word would also only support a subset of features which are exported. But if these subsets include the most important features used in the editing process on both sides, a round trip should be possible. Cheers, Rainer > > JMarc - -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: [email protected] Skype: RMkrug -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9Yef8ACgkQoYgNqgF2egr3NwCfZ9OpkD7DPCO+SrJrN9p9KRfG qf0An0eRAnqG6gkcyFfpy3oQyf0k8g/K =pfcI -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
