On Aug 23, 2013, at 7:28 AM, Les Denham <lden...@hal-pc.org> wrote: > On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:26:31 -0700 > Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote: > >> >> On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:16 AM, Les Denham <lden...@hal-pc.org> wrote: >> >>> On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:13:23 -0700 >>> Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Aug 18, 2013, at 6:59 PM, Les Denham <lden...@hal-pc.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> My general approach to getting a LyX document into Word format is >>>>> to us the LyXHTML export, import the exported file into >>>>> LibreOffice, fix the inevitable problems, and save in DOCX format. >>>> >>>> How do you import the XHTML from LyXHTML into LibreOffice? When I >>>> try it, I see only raw text; it is not rendered. I let the file >>>> dialog display all files and assumed that the .xhtml file >>>> extension would tell LO what to do but obviously this did not >>>> happen. >>>> >>> Jerry, >>> >>> One of the inevitable problems. Try changing the .xhtml file >>> extension to .html. I think you can also delve into the advanced >>> settings of LibreOffice to tell it to treat .xhtml files as HTML. >>> >>> Les >> >> Les, thanks for that tip, but it didn't change anything--still raw >> text, either with a document with a few equations (and thus MathML in >> the XHTML file) or just a simple file containing only the word >> "Hello". >> >> FWIW, when I do open the (x)html file, I get a dialog asking for >> Character set (default = UTF-8), Default fonts (default = Times New >> Roman), Language (default = English (US)) and Paragraph break >> (default = LF). I accepted all the defaults. So it looks at that >> point like something is about to happen, but then I see only raw >> text. >> >> I also looked at Tools -> Options -> Load/Save -> HTML Compatibility >> but didn't see anything relevant. >> >> Jerry > > Jerry, > > Sorry, I left out one step: before opening the file in LibreOffice, > open in a text editor and delete the first line (the one that looks > like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>). Save it and then > import into LO. > > Les
Thanks, Les (and Alan). That fixes the import problem. I was disappointed (but not surprised) to see that LibreOffice (actually, NeoOffice, a Macintized version of OpenOffice) does not render the math which comes over as MathML. Firefox and recent versions of Safari (apparently at the WebKit level) do a passable job of rendering the math in a browser. "Passable" means easily readable and mathematically correct but not up to TeX standards. The new (4.0 IIRC) version of LibreOffice had problems on the Mac so I deleted it for the time being. Maybe LO does the math. As I ramble more...OpenOffice and LibreOffice leave giant white space on both sides of in-line math--completely unacceptable. And it seems impossible to understand the math syntax until one accidentally discovers that it is based on nroff or troff I'm not sure which because I don't care that much. Jerry
