On 18/01/13 05:17, Jerry wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2013, at 2:30 AM, Alex Fernandez wrote: > >> Hi Jerry, >> >> I am the primary author of eLyXer. >> >> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net >> <mailto:lancebo...@qwest.net>> >> wrote: >> >> Thanks for that tip. I checked it out. It's just a Python thing so it works >> fine on OS X, >> and LyX picked it up as advertised. >> >> >> Yes, I can confirm that OS X is fully supported. >> >> >> The output on my simple test case does look nice in a browser, but I get the >> same error >> opening with Word as I first described: "The XML file bla bla bla cannot be >> opened..." etc. >> I thought maybe my copy of Word was broken but it reads other HTML files >> fine--I'm guessing >> they don't have the XML stuff in them, however. >> >> >> Word does not like XHTML very much; you need to export to HTML 4, using the >> --html option. >> http://elyxer.nongnu.org/userguide.html#sub:HTML-Code If you are doing the >> conversion inside >> LyX, instead of on the command line, you have to add the --html in the >> conversion interface. >> >> >> I checked the HTML file that eLyXer made with the W3C page and got: "The >> uploaded document >> "-" was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional." >> >> >> Yes, eLyXer outputs pure XHTML. >> >> >> Also--eLyXer does not appear to use MathML so I don't think there is any >> hope of getting >> editable math into Word using this method. (But I haven't read all of the >> eLyXer docs.) >> >> >> eLyXer has several options for Math output: >> http://elyxer.nongnu.org/userguide.html#sub:Math >> Sadly, none of them is MathML, since at the time eLyXer was conceived it was >> not very widely >> supported, and I have not found the time to add it. >> >> Hope this helps, >> >> Alex Fernández. >> > Hi, Alex, > > Thanks for the comments and for the great tool. It does what it claims to to, > convert LyX to > HTML, with lots of math options. The default conversion looks great in a > browser. > > I tried your --html suggestion and indeed Word opens it, and displays it much > as a browser > does. Unfortunately, the HTML limitations are apparent; this is probably as > good as a HTML-only > conversion can get. > > In my slow-witted way, I'm starting to understand why Word will not open the > various XML > formats that I'm throwing at it. (I also played with TeXht today (and the Mac > GUI over it, > SimpleTeXht. This method also makes XML in some variations, and .odt.) So > Word isn't > broken—it's just not made to recognize this particular kind of XML. (I want > to use the word > "schema" but don't really know what I'm talking about.) So What is missing, > as has been stated > in previous threads, is a converter from the XML that we're seeing to .docx, > it seems.
check pandoc - I am using pandoc to convert xhtml to docx and odt - works perfect for me. I just \converter "xhtml" "msdocx" "pandoc -o $$o $$i" "" \converter "xhtml" "odt lo" "pandoc -o $$o $$i" ""added the following converter: You have to play with the LyX xhtml or the eLyXer xhtml - I used LyXHTRML because it workded better in my case. I really think that pandoc should be detected automatically by LyX (when doing reconfigure) and added as it provides very usable conversions. Cheers, Rainer > > Jerry
