Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Stephen Harris wrote: htaltex which comes with the tex4ht package converts to html. from the command line: htlatex something.tex makes something.html, Conversion quality varies and outputs need to be proofread. No, use the oolatex macro in tex4ht. It will convert your file to the openoffice format. Much better. You will keep footnotes and have text with a stylesheet that you can adjust inside your wordprocessor. Going through html is a mistake except for very simple documents. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org SH: I don't agree with you. Look at this html file created by htlatex. http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gumm/LyX/Using_XYpic_in_LyX.htm Perhaps it is a subjective matter, but I don't most people would consider this file a very simple document. Word is able to import the file just about perfectly and save it as .doc. I didn't test this with OpenOffice- as I'm accepting the claims made on its behalf. The OP didn't seem to know much about portability as he mentioned .rtf. So I addressed portability needs he might not have thought about. One can make a good .doc using htlatex first to generate an html file. But you can't make a good html conversion from a file that has equations using expensive software, Word 2003 or Adobe Writer Pro, and I very much doubt the ability of OpenOffice to do this. Actually the best word to describe such a conversion to html is horrific. So I consider htlatex as a commendable alternative depending on the unstated future uses for his conversion needs. I didn't say to use htlatex because it is better than your suggestion, you read that into my post. I contributed useful information, IMO. Besides, Yaron Goland finds htlatex useful for his blog, and such conversions can later find a home on a company/edu web site. Just to be clear, your choice may be better for the OP, I'm disagreeing with your dismissing htlatex so readily. http://www.goland.org/lyx/ : - 8 Making Pretty HTML The easiest way to generate HTML output is to go to File-Export-HTML. This produces great quality HTML but unfortunately the output does not properly support BibTex. So if BibTex is used there will be no bibliography and the citations will all show up as [?]. To get around this I go to File-Export-LATEX to generate a .tex file. Let's assume that file is called myfile.tex. I next open a terminal window, navigate to the directory containing myfile.tex and type in the following commands: latex myfile bibtex myfile latex myfile latex myfile htlatex myfile 'XHTML' Notice that the extension .tex is not used. Then end result will be a file called myfile.html that will contain a full HTML representation, with a bibliography and will generate gifs for any math formulas. SH: I don't use LyX's export as HTML, but rather export as .tex and then run htlatex on that. The current default is .png which can be changed. My purpose is to show that htlatex is not as limited as you represented it, to very simple documents. Also htlatex may not be the most convenient, but is a useful option to keep in hand. If you want to rebut that, criticize the value of my example file, Using_XYpic_in_LyX.htm, which I think is surpasses simplistic. Or if OpenOffice also can produce html output of the same quality as htlatex, then that would excuse the option of keeping htlatex alive. Obviously, I didn't offer htlatex in the context of continuing to develop a document, the purpose of LyX, unless OOo replaces LyX. I meant no dichotomy, Stephen
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Stephen Harris wrote: htaltex which comes with the tex4ht package converts to html. from the command line: htlatex something.tex makes something.html, Conversion quality varies and outputs need to be proofread. No, use the oolatex macro in tex4ht. It will convert your file to the openoffice format. Much better. You will keep footnotes and have text with a stylesheet that you can adjust inside your wordprocessor. Going through html is a mistake except for very simple documents. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org SH: I don't agree with you. Look at this html file created by htlatex. http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gumm/LyX/Using_XYpic_in_LyX.htm Perhaps it is a subjective matter, but I don't most people would consider this file a very simple document. Word is able to import the file just about perfectly and save it as .doc. I didn't test this with OpenOffice- as I'm accepting the claims made on its behalf. The OP didn't seem to know much about portability as he mentioned .rtf. So I addressed portability needs he might not have thought about. One can make a good .doc using htlatex first to generate an html file. But you can't make a good html conversion from a file that has equations using expensive software, Word 2003 or Adobe Writer Pro, and I very much doubt the ability of OpenOffice to do this. Actually the best word to describe such a conversion to html is horrific. So I consider htlatex as a commendable alternative depending on the unstated future uses for his conversion needs. I didn't say to use htlatex because it is better than your suggestion, you read that into my post. I contributed useful information, IMO. Besides, Yaron Goland finds htlatex useful for his blog, and such conversions can later find a home on a company/edu web site. Just to be clear, your choice may be better for the OP, I'm disagreeing with your dismissing htlatex so readily. http://www.goland.org/lyx/ : - 8 Making Pretty HTML The easiest way to generate HTML output is to go to File-Export-HTML. This produces great quality HTML but unfortunately the output does not properly support BibTex. So if BibTex is used there will be no bibliography and the citations will all show up as [?]. To get around this I go to File-Export-LATEX to generate a .tex file. Let's assume that file is called myfile.tex. I next open a terminal window, navigate to the directory containing myfile.tex and type in the following commands: latex myfile bibtex myfile latex myfile latex myfile htlatex myfile 'XHTML' Notice that the extension .tex is not used. Then end result will be a file called myfile.html that will contain a full HTML representation, with a bibliography and will generate gifs for any math formulas. SH: I don't use LyX's export as HTML, but rather export as .tex and then run htlatex on that. The current default is .png which can be changed. My purpose is to show that htlatex is not as limited as you represented it, to very simple documents. Also htlatex may not be the most convenient, but is a useful option to keep in hand. If you want to rebut that, criticize the value of my example file, Using_XYpic_in_LyX.htm, which I think is surpasses simplistic. Or if OpenOffice also can produce html output of the same quality as htlatex, then that would excuse the option of keeping htlatex alive. Obviously, I didn't offer htlatex in the context of continuing to develop a document, the purpose of LyX, unless OOo replaces LyX. I meant no dichotomy, Stephen
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Stephen Harris wrote: > > htaltex which comes with the tex4ht package converts to html. from > the command line: "htlatex something.tex" makes something.html, > > Conversion quality varies and outputs need to be proofread. > No, use the oolatex macro in tex4ht. It will convert your file to the openoffice format. Much better. You will keep footnotes and have text with a stylesheet that you can adjust inside your wordprocessor. Going through html is a mistake except for very simple documents. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org SH: I don't agree with you. Look at this html file created by htlatex. http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~gumm/LyX/Using_XYpic_in_LyX.htm Perhaps it is a subjective matter, but I don't most people would consider this file a "very simple document". Word is able to import the file just about perfectly and save it as .doc. I didn't test this with OpenOffice-> as I'm accepting the claims made on its behalf. The OP didn't seem to know much about portability as he mentioned .rtf. So I addressed portability needs he might not have thought about. One can make a good .doc using htlatex first to generate an html file. But you can't make a good html conversion from a file that has equations using expensive software, Word 2003 or Adobe Writer Pro, and I very much doubt the ability of OpenOffice to do this. Actually the best word to describe such a conversion to html is horrific. So I consider htlatex as a commendable alternative depending on the unstated future uses for his conversion needs. I didn't say to use htlatex because it is better than your suggestion, you read that into my post. I contributed useful information, IMO. Besides, Yaron Goland finds htlatex useful for his blog, and such conversions can later find a home on a company/edu web site. Just to be clear, your choice may be better for the OP, I'm disagreeing with your dismissing htlatex so readily. http://www.goland.org/lyx/ : - 8 Making Pretty HTML "The easiest way to generate HTML output is to go to File->Export->HTML. This produces great quality HTML but unfortunately the output does not properly support BibTex. So if BibTex is used there will be no bibliography and the citations will all show up as [?]. To get around this I go to File->Export->LATEX to generate a .tex file. Let's assume that file is called "myfile.tex". I next open a terminal window, navigate to the directory containing myfile.tex and type in the following commands: latex myfile bibtex myfile latex myfile latex myfile htlatex myfile 'XHTML' Notice that the extension ".tex" is not used. Then end result will be a file called myfile.html that will contain a full HTML representation, with a bibliography and will generate gifs for any math formulas." SH: I don't use LyX's export as HTML, but rather export as .tex and then run htlatex on that. The current default is .png which can be changed. My purpose is to show that htlatex is not as limited as you represented it, to "very simple documents". Also htlatex may not be the most convenient, but is a useful option to keep in hand. If you want to rebut that, criticize the value of my example file, Using_XYpic_in_LyX.htm, which I think is surpasses simplistic. Or if OpenOffice also can produce html output of the same quality as htlatex, then that would excuse the option of keeping htlatex alive. Obviously, I didn't offer htlatex in the context of continuing to develop a document, the purpose of LyX, unless OOo replaces LyX. I meant no dichotomy, Stephen
Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Dear Listusers, I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for linux, but I'm working on windows. Is there a workaround or something? With kind regards, Sebastian
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Sebastian wrote: Dear Listusers, I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for linux, but I'm working on windows. Is there a workaround or something? With kind regards, Sebastian Do you have tex4ht installed on your computer. If you use MikTeX try http://facweb.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/pviton/support/tex4ht.html If you are in a hurry send me your file by private mail and I'll convert it for you. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Charles de Miramon wrote: Sebastian wrote: Dear Listusers, I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for linux, but I'm working on windows. Is there a workaround or something? With kind regards, Sebastian Do you have tex4ht installed on your computer. If you use MikTeX try http://facweb.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/pviton/support/tex4ht.html htaltex which comes with the tex4ht package converts to html. from the command line: htlatex something.tex makes something.html, Conversion quality varies and outputs need to be proofread. http://www.surfpack.com/software/html2rtf/ offers a Windows html2rtf freeware utility. If you install the tex4ht package you will need to run the updating of the databases found in Miktex Options, part of Miktex. I usually Reconfigure (under Tools or Edit) LyX afterwards. Regards, Stephen
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Stephen Harris wrote: htaltex which comes with the tex4ht package converts to html. from the command line: htlatex something.tex makes something.html, Conversion quality varies and outputs need to be proofread. No, use the oolatex macro in tex4ht. It will convert your file to the openoffice format. Much better. You will keep footnotes and have text with a stylesheet that you can adjust inside your wordprocessor. Going through html is a mistake except for very simple documents. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Dear Listusers, I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for linux, but I'm working on windows. Is there a workaround or something? With kind regards, Sebastian
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Sebastian wrote: Dear Listusers, I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for linux, but I'm working on windows. Is there a workaround or something? With kind regards, Sebastian Do you have tex4ht installed on your computer. If you use MikTeX try http://facweb.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/pviton/support/tex4ht.html If you are in a hurry send me your file by private mail and I'll convert it for you. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Charles de Miramon wrote: Sebastian wrote: Dear Listusers, I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for linux, but I'm working on windows. Is there a workaround or something? With kind regards, Sebastian Do you have tex4ht installed on your computer. If you use MikTeX try http://facweb.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/pviton/support/tex4ht.html htaltex which comes with the tex4ht package converts to html. from the command line: htlatex something.tex makes something.html, Conversion quality varies and outputs need to be proofread. http://www.surfpack.com/software/html2rtf/ offers a Windows html2rtf freeware utility. If you install the tex4ht package you will need to run the updating of the databases found in Miktex Options, part of Miktex. I usually Reconfigure (under Tools or Edit) LyX afterwards. Regards, Stephen
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Stephen Harris wrote: htaltex which comes with the tex4ht package converts to html. from the command line: htlatex something.tex makes something.html, Conversion quality varies and outputs need to be proofread. No, use the oolatex macro in tex4ht. It will convert your file to the openoffice format. Much better. You will keep footnotes and have text with a stylesheet that you can adjust inside your wordprocessor. Going through html is a mistake except for very simple documents. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Dear Listusers, I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for linux, but I'm working on windows. Is there a workaround or something? With kind regards, Sebastian
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Sebastian wrote: > Dear Listusers, > I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf > Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice > for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for > linux, but I'm working on windows. Is there a workaround or something? > > With kind regards, > Sebastian Do you have tex4ht installed on your computer. If you use MikTeX try http://facweb.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/pviton/support/tex4ht.html If you are in a hurry send me your file by private mail and I'll convert it for you. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Charles de Miramon wrote: > Sebastian wrote: > > >>Dear Listusers, >>I'm writing an article for a journal and the redaction is only taking rtf >>Format. Is there a way to export my lyx document into rtf or OpenOffice >>for windows. Unfortunatly works the export script for openoffice only for >>linux, but I'm working on windows. Is there a workaround or something? >> >>With kind regards, >>Sebastian > > > Do you have tex4ht installed on your computer. > > If you use MikTeX try > http://facweb.knowlton.ohio-state.edu/pviton/support/tex4ht.html > htaltex which comes with the tex4ht package converts to html. from the command line: "htlatex something.tex" makes something.html, Conversion quality varies and outputs need to be proofread. http://www.surfpack.com/software/html2rtf/ offers a Windows html2rtf freeware utility. If you install the tex4ht package you will need to run the updating of the databases found in Miktex Options, part of Miktex. I usually Reconfigure (under Tools or Edit) LyX afterwards. Regards, Stephen
Re: Converting in rtf or openoffice for windows
Stephen Harris wrote: > > htaltex which comes with the tex4ht package converts to html. from > the command line: "htlatex something.tex" makes something.html, > > Conversion quality varies and outputs need to be proofread. > No, use the oolatex macro in tex4ht. It will convert your file to the openoffice format. Much better. You will keep footnotes and have text with a stylesheet that you can adjust inside your wordprocessor. Going through html is a mistake except for very simple documents. Cheers, Charles -- http://www.kde-france.org
