On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 7:21 AM, ehud.kaplan <ehud.kap...@gmail.com> wrote: > I had tried to convert from a Lyx document (a Ph.D. thesis, ~140 pages) to > LibreOffice (File/Export/HTML). Much of it worked, but there were many > problems: > > Equation numbers moved from right to left > Figures were totally distorted (size scaled up), > Some equations and algorithms were mangled > Several sections appeared centered instead of being left justified as they > were originally. > > Using File/Export/LYXHTML produced similar results, although the equation > numbers were not mangled. > > In short, such conversions do a lot, but they also leave a lot for manual > fixing. I suspect that if such a path were available, many more people > would use Lyx.
If you understand the target XML schemata then just write an XSL (in XSLT) for the conversion from LyXHTML to that target. I've done this. It's a small project, and it does depend on the stability of the LyXHTML "schema" (XHTML documents don't have a schema so much as conventions), which is probably not really stable. You could also use my lyx2xml converter and write XSLs that consume that. The latter depends on the .lyx "schema", which too is not stable, but working with raw LyX metadata is easier than an XHTML rendering of a LyX document, and you can always use lyx2lyx to workaround lack of stability in .lyx, whereas nothing really helps w.r.t. LyXHTML instability. If the OpenOffice XML schemata are too complex but there's some other intermediate XML schema for which there's a suitably faithful converter out there, then you could use it as a step in the conversion process. Nico --
