Hi Everyone, I am Prannoy Pilligundla, a second year undergrad from India. I will be working on Roundtrip Conversion from Lyx to ODT throughout the Summer as a part of Google Summer of Code 2014. First of all I want to thank the community for keeping faith in my abilities and selecting my proposal, I will definitely put in my best efforts to complete this project. Also Congratulations to the Co-GSoCer Sushant Raikar, all the best to you too.
I have already started work and currently my focus is to get accustomed to TeX4ht. To start with I am fixing issues with some styles one by one. My mid-term milestone is to have Lyx to ODT conversion working for the decided feature set. After tuning the export to ODT as per the requirements next thing to do would be to replace the last step of TeX4ht with a Lua module in LuaTeX which relies on the same *.4ht files. In the last step TeX4ht processes the DVI file which has special instructions to complete the conversion. A package needs to be written in Lua which has full access to the nodes created by LuaTeX and loads tex4ht.sty to have access to the *.4ht files. This needs to be done because TeX4ht doesn’t support fonts without a tfm table,which means that opentype and truetype fonts used by fontspec cannot be used. After completing this part I will work on prototyping the reverse conversion. This is the brief overview of my project and I will definitely seek your help,advice and suggestions for all the difficulties that arise on the course of completing this project. Looking forward for an exciting Summer!! Thanks and Regards Prannoy Pilligundla ᐧ
