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!


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