I have really had rather nice results using the commercial (but with quite a cheap educational price) tex2word filter for Word, including equations, but excluding figures (you need to reinsert them). Unfortunately, I have not tried it with a recent version of Word, so I cannot say if it continues to work. I think that it is possible to download a trial version, so you can test it.
Le jeudi 2 mai 2013, Jerry a écrit : > > On May 1, 2013, at 5:21 AM, ehud.kaplan 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. > > I agree, as do many others. > > A while back I spent a lot of time evaluating the various ways to convert > LyX to .odt or .docx and found that none of them work well. (Apologies to > those who are reading this who have actually worked on the problem and made > substantial progress.) Some work with certain restricted sets of features > but add an equation or something else and they break. > > One would hope with all the talk on the developers' list recently with the > Google Summer of Code that this would be at the top of the list of things > to do. > > Jerry > > > -- > > Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. > > Jules & Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor > > Director, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience > > Director, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience > > The Friedman Brain Institute > > Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical > Biology, > > The Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai > > One Gustave Levy Place, > > NY, NY, 10029 > > > > > > > > > > > > On 04/29/2013 08:52 AM, Ray Rashif wrote: > >> On 29 April 2013 07:02, Sotiris Hasapis <shasa...@gmail.com<javascript:;> > > > >> wrote: > >> > >>> I ' m trying to convert lyx to odt file using the methods described > here: > >>> > >>> http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice > >>> > >>> but nothing seems to work. In fact when taking the convert option : > >>> Latex(plain) to openoffice nothing happens and responds : "Error while > >>> exporting format: odtFile 'C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/Local > >>> > Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp4792/lyx_tmpbuf3/Some_aspects_of_group-based_cryptograhpy.tex' > >>> was not closed properly." > >>> Any help please? > >>> > >>> I'm using windows xp, lyx 2.0. > >>> Thank you. > >>> Sotiris. > >>> > >> From experience this has never proven useful. Interoperability is an > >> issue here with LyX and other word processors. Even if one conversion > >> succeeds (to either a .doc, .docx, .odt or .rtf), you'd likely need to > >> do some clean-up here and there. > >> > >> A fine compromise I have found is to use elyxer¹ as an intermediary > >> tool. Its HTML output is beautiful, and it works with complex > >> parent-child lyx documents including figures. You could also take a > >> look at pandoc (via LaTeX).² > >> > >> ¹ > >> http://elyxer.nongnu.org/ > >> > >> ² > >> http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/ > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1 > >> > > > > -- Prof. Murat Yildizoglu Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113) Avenue Léon Duguit 33608 Pessac cedex France Bureau : E-331 yildi-at-u-bordeaux4.fr web: yildizoglu.info
