On 18/01/13 09:10, Rainer M Krug wrote: > 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 <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> 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
Ups - should have been: ### I just added the following converter: \converter "xhtml" "msdocx" "pandoc -o $$o $$i" "" \converter "xhtml" "odt lo" "pandoc -o $$o $$i" "" ### > > \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 > >
