On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:23 PM, Eric Weir <eew...@bellsouth.net> wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2012, at 3:12 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > >> I have no experience with either in this context, but OOo is already >> old, and obsoleted by LibO. I guess it is worth giving LibO a shot. > > Thanks, Liviu. I'm in scattershot mode right now. Trying things almost > mindlessly. I guess I don't know how to install converters. I've tried to > install the LaTeX to RTF converter from /preferences/file handling. I select > the converter, apply it, reconfigure, restart LyX. When I restart LaTeX to > RTF doesn't show up in /File/Export, and when I go back to /preferences/file > handling another converter is selected. > > My document is simple. Headings and footnotes. About ten pages. I'd like to > see if the LaTeX to RTF convertor will handle it. > > How do I install a converter? > To install a converter you need to install the external program (e.g., as you would install LyX or LibO). For elyxer [1] follow its installation instructions, for latex2rtf [2]. Then reconfigure LyX. (If you made modifications to your prefs---converters and file handling---, you may want to start over with a fresh prefs file, just to make sure that you didn't break anything.)
Liviu [1] http://elyxer.nongnu.org/ [2] http://latex2rtf.sourceforge.net/
