On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 15:57:13 -0600 stefano franchi <[email protected]> wrote:
> My next struggle with word conversions came much sooner than I > thought. > > Suggestions are welcome on how to tackle the conversion a document > with the following characteristics: > > ~ 16,000 words > class: article > engine: LuaTex > Bib: biblatex + biber > no math > no images > no X-references, branches, etc. > lots of footnotes If I'm understanding you correctly, you're trying to import a LaTeX file (?) into (LyX? XHTML? MSWord? ODT?) If the existing LaTeX file works, why not just keep working with it in Vim? Unless you're trying to bang out voluminous content, LaTeX in an editor is reasonable to deal with. For LaTeX conversions, I often found it handy to compile the LaTeX all the way to at least .dvi, and then use all the created intermediate files as the basis of a home-grown conversion program. If one of the intermediate files has all your biblatex info, then you can parse that with a Python file and do what you want with it in the destination format. Personally, if it were me, on the way to (eeeuuuuu) doc/odt, I'd make a side trip to either xhtml or HTML5 formatted as well-formed xml, with styles completely intact. From there you could probably find a converter to ODT, and from ODT you could export MSWord .doc, but with the xml, you'd have an easy gateway to eBooks or anything else you wanted to do with it later. I might even be so crazy as to suggest you use the HTML5 well formed xml as your source, editing it in Bluefish, and convert *that* to other formats. HTH, SteveT
