Hi Everyone. I updated the wiki for this Project and from now on I will constantly record my progress there. Here is the link http://wiki.lyx.org/GSoC/LyxToWordConversion
Thanks and Regards Prannoy Pilligundla ᐧ On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Prannoy Pilligundla <prannoy.b...@gmail.com > wrote: > 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 >
