On 13 July 2012 05:09, Richard Heck <[email protected]> wrote: > On 07/12/2012 02:45 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: >> >> I'm trying to export my entire document to a format which can be >> edited in conventional word processing software (OpenOffice, MS Word). >> As RTF does not support images, and HTML export does not retain much >> of the formatting (e.g. citations, sometimes not even appearing), >> > Have you tried using LyX's own XHTML export? I've had very good luck using > it for this > purpose.
Yes, that works well. However, I'm not able to open it (the xhtml file) with any word processor. Most obvioously, MS Word does not recognise "ldquote". I gave up at that point. Do you have any suggestion for this? >> I am left with ODF. However, I have not been successful. This is the final >> dialog: >> >> An error occurred while running: >> mk4ht oolatex "thesis.tex" >> >> If it's important, this is a master-child doc, with images formatted >> in PDF (vector), JPG and PNG, some of them resized, scaled, rotated. I >> also have foreign characters, but the document is in English. The >> encoding for some child docs are utf8 extended, where there are some >> accents and umlauts (mainly names and such). >> > The oolatex program, which is what LyX is trying to use for conversion, is > pretty famously > a difficult beast. If the document is complicated, then I'd definitely > suggest you export it to > LaTeX and try using oolatex manually. It'll be easier to see what the > problem is. Yes, I'l have to give it some attention. Currently I'm looking at what other ways I could achieve this. Thanks! -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
