Re: Converting to OpenOffice
Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. Usually, such conversion is not perfect and you will have to fix some things after the conversion. But are you sure you need to convert? Perhaps it is less work to just install LyX on your colleagues computer - you could offer to do that instead? Your colleague will also need latex _if_ there is a need to print / preview. But LyX without latex is also an option if all those files will go back to you for final processing anyway. Some people worry a lot about getting a new, different word processor. But you can point out: 1. Getting LyX does not mean loosing word. The two word processors coexist just fine, your colleague can simply use lyx for your files and word for other stuff. 2. All the software needed for LyX is free, so no money lost here. Helge Hafting
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. Usually, such conversion is not perfect and you will have to fix some things after the conversion. But are you sure you need to convert? Perhaps it is less work to just install LyX on your colleagues computer - you could offer to do that instead? Your colleague will also need latex _if_ there is a need to print / preview. But LyX without latex is also an option if all those files will go back to you for final processing anyway. Some people worry a lot about getting a new, different word processor. But you can point out: 1. Getting LyX does not mean loosing word. The two word processors coexist just fine, your colleague can simply use lyx for your files and word for other stuff. 2. All the software needed for LyX is free, so no money lost here. Helge Hafting
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. Usually, such conversion is not perfect and you will have to fix some things after the conversion. But are you sure you need to convert? Perhaps it is less work to just install LyX on your colleagues computer - you could offer to do that instead? Your colleague will also need latex _if_ there is a need to print / preview. But LyX without latex is also an option if all those files will go back to you for final processing anyway. Some people worry a lot about getting a new, different word processor. But you can point out: 1. Getting LyX does not mean loosing word. The two word processors coexist just fine, your colleague can simply use lyx for your files and word for other stuff. 2. All the software needed for LyX is free, so no money lost here. Helge Hafting
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
I had to do a similar thing last night. What I found to work best, although there weren't any figures or equations in the document, was to export it from LyX to HTML and then import from HTML into Word. I had to do some tweaking to the text once it was in word but overall it wasn't too bad. Using Find and Replace in Word worked well to replace document styles and that fixed up most of the formatting. -Neil = Neil Hepburn, Economics Instructor Department of Social Sciences, Augustana Faculty University of Alberta 4901-46 Avenue Camrose, Alberta T4V 2R3 Phone (780) 679-1588 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 15-Feb-08, at 7:15 AM, Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. There are basically 2 options: use ConvTex script and use the LyX converter. Neither one works properly. In fact, IMHO, ConvTex makes the best work... however all figures are converted to .eps (a lot of them are .eps, although I am, by now, preferring .png), This is not the problem, but the fact that to use ConvTex we need first export to LaTex, and then use CovTest to create a .sxw (OpenOffice 1.0 == StarOffice), then convert to (sorry) msword. When LyX exports to LaTex, the extensions in all figures file names are removed (and assumed to be .eps in a latex run). Now, ConvTex does not assumes this, and expects the extension (whatever) in the Latex text. When run, ConvTex does not find the figures, and the exported .swx does not includes the pictures. As a (brute force) solution, after exporting a LyX to Latex, I must add .eps in all figure file names in order to ConvTex work. I can't find in the LyX preferences a way to change that. The converter to export to Latex ( LyX - Latex converter) doesn't show in the list of converters to try to fix this. Any idea? Thanks Jorge (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in the text. Not good yet)
Re: Converting to OpenOffice -- follow up
Hi Jorge Of course there is another option, one which your colleague may just thank you for in the future -- give him/her a copy of LyX and bring him/her back from the Dark Side ;-} -Neil = Neil Hepburn, Economics Instructor Department of Social Sciences, Augustana Faculty University of Alberta 4901-46 Avenue Camrose, Alberta T4V 2R3 Phone (780) 679-1588 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 15-Feb-08, at 7:15 AM, Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. There are basically 2 options: use ConvTex script and use the LyX converter. Neither one works properly. In fact, IMHO, ConvTex makes the best work... however all figures are converted to .eps (a lot of them are .eps, although I am, by now, preferring .png), This is not the problem, but the fact that to use ConvTex we need first export to LaTex, and then use CovTest to create a .sxw (OpenOffice 1.0 == StarOffice), then convert to (sorry) msword. When LyX exports to LaTex, the extensions in all figures file names are removed (and assumed to be .eps in a latex run). Now, ConvTex does not assumes this, and expects the extension (whatever) in the Latex text. When run, ConvTex does not find the figures, and the exported .swx does not includes the pictures. As a (brute force) solution, after exporting a LyX to Latex, I must add .eps in all figure file names in order to ConvTex work. I can't find in the LyX preferences a way to change that. The converter to export to Latex ( LyX - Latex converter) doesn't show in the list of converters to try to fix this. Any idea? Thanks Jorge (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in the text. Not good yet)
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008, Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in the text. Not good yet) I've had good luck with tex2word, converting an entire book with many hundreds of equations. And word2tex works pretty well in the reverse direction. Just Google to get information. Neither is perfect, but the results, especially for equations, seem much better than the alternatives you mention. (Grindeq is a similar product, but I have no experience with it.) Of course, these solutions cost money and involve proprietary software, which may be a deal-breaker for some people. ...dave case
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
Jorge Sampaio-2 wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. Can you go straight from Lyx through LaTeX to Rich Text Format instead? RTF plays well with Word. I don't know how latex2rtf handles pictures and equations, but it might be worth a try. http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Converting-to-OpenOffice-tp15501982p15512336.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:23:11 -0800 (PST) David Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Sampaio-2 wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. Can you go straight from Lyx through LaTeX to Rich Text Format instead? RTF plays well with Word. I don't know how latex2rtf handles pictures and equations, but it might be worth a try. I convert a book length LaTeX document to OpenOffice using oolatex. It is part of the tex4ht package. I don't know if there is a Windows version. My document doesn't have any pictures or equations, so I can't speak to that. It does have a lot of cross references and special indexes. Alan http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Converting-to-OpenOffice-tp15501982p15512336.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
I had to do a similar thing last night. What I found to work best, although there weren't any figures or equations in the document, was to export it from LyX to HTML and then import from HTML into Word. I had to do some tweaking to the text once it was in word but overall it wasn't too bad. Using Find and Replace in Word worked well to replace document styles and that fixed up most of the formatting. -Neil = Neil Hepburn, Economics Instructor Department of Social Sciences, Augustana Faculty University of Alberta 4901-46 Avenue Camrose, Alberta T4V 2R3 Phone (780) 679-1588 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 15-Feb-08, at 7:15 AM, Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. There are basically 2 options: use ConvTex script and use the LyX converter. Neither one works properly. In fact, IMHO, ConvTex makes the best work... however all figures are converted to .eps (a lot of them are .eps, although I am, by now, preferring .png), This is not the problem, but the fact that to use ConvTex we need first export to LaTex, and then use CovTest to create a .sxw (OpenOffice 1.0 == StarOffice), then convert to (sorry) msword. When LyX exports to LaTex, the extensions in all figures file names are removed (and assumed to be .eps in a latex run). Now, ConvTex does not assumes this, and expects the extension (whatever) in the Latex text. When run, ConvTex does not find the figures, and the exported .swx does not includes the pictures. As a (brute force) solution, after exporting a LyX to Latex, I must add .eps in all figure file names in order to ConvTex work. I can't find in the LyX preferences a way to change that. The converter to export to Latex ( LyX - Latex converter) doesn't show in the list of converters to try to fix this. Any idea? Thanks Jorge (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in the text. Not good yet)
Re: Converting to OpenOffice -- follow up
Hi Jorge Of course there is another option, one which your colleague may just thank you for in the future -- give him/her a copy of LyX and bring him/her back from the Dark Side ;-} -Neil = Neil Hepburn, Economics Instructor Department of Social Sciences, Augustana Faculty University of Alberta 4901-46 Avenue Camrose, Alberta T4V 2R3 Phone (780) 679-1588 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 15-Feb-08, at 7:15 AM, Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. There are basically 2 options: use ConvTex script and use the LyX converter. Neither one works properly. In fact, IMHO, ConvTex makes the best work... however all figures are converted to .eps (a lot of them are .eps, although I am, by now, preferring .png), This is not the problem, but the fact that to use ConvTex we need first export to LaTex, and then use CovTest to create a .sxw (OpenOffice 1.0 == StarOffice), then convert to (sorry) msword. When LyX exports to LaTex, the extensions in all figures file names are removed (and assumed to be .eps in a latex run). Now, ConvTex does not assumes this, and expects the extension (whatever) in the Latex text. When run, ConvTex does not find the figures, and the exported .swx does not includes the pictures. As a (brute force) solution, after exporting a LyX to Latex, I must add .eps in all figure file names in order to ConvTex work. I can't find in the LyX preferences a way to change that. The converter to export to Latex ( LyX - Latex converter) doesn't show in the list of converters to try to fix this. Any idea? Thanks Jorge (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in the text. Not good yet)
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008, Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in the text. Not good yet) I've had good luck with tex2word, converting an entire book with many hundreds of equations. And word2tex works pretty well in the reverse direction. Just Google to get information. Neither is perfect, but the results, especially for equations, seem much better than the alternatives you mention. (Grindeq is a similar product, but I have no experience with it.) Of course, these solutions cost money and involve proprietary software, which may be a deal-breaker for some people. ...dave case
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
Jorge Sampaio-2 wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. Can you go straight from Lyx through LaTeX to Rich Text Format instead? RTF plays well with Word. I don't know how latex2rtf handles pictures and equations, but it might be worth a try. http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Converting-to-OpenOffice-tp15501982p15512336.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:23:11 -0800 (PST) David Hewitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jorge Sampaio-2 wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. Can you go straight from Lyx through LaTeX to Rich Text Format instead? RTF plays well with Word. I don't know how latex2rtf handles pictures and equations, but it might be worth a try. I convert a book length LaTeX document to OpenOffice using oolatex. It is part of the tex4ht package. I don't know if there is a Windows version. My document doesn't have any pictures or equations, so I can't speak to that. It does have a lot of cross references and special indexes. Alan http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Converting-to-OpenOffice-tp15501982p15512336.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
I had to do a similar thing last night. What I found to work best, although there weren't any figures or equations in the document, was to export it from LyX to HTML and then import from HTML into Word. I had to do some tweaking to the text once it was in word but overall it wasn't too bad. Using Find and Replace in Word worked well to replace document styles and that fixed up most of the formatting. -Neil = Neil Hepburn, Economics Instructor Department of Social Sciences, Augustana Faculty University of Alberta 4901-46 Avenue Camrose, Alberta T4V 2R3 Phone (780) 679-1588 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 15-Feb-08, at 7:15 AM, Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. There are basically 2 options: use ConvTex script and use the LyX converter. Neither one works properly. In fact, IMHO, ConvTex makes the best work... however all figures are converted to .eps (a lot of them are .eps, although I am, by now, preferring .png), This is not the problem, but the fact that to use ConvTex we need first export to LaTex, and then use CovTest to create a .sxw (OpenOffice 1.0 == StarOffice), then convert to (sorry) msword. When LyX exports to LaTex, the extensions in all figures file names are removed (and assumed to be .eps in a latex run). Now, ConvTex does not assumes this, and expects the extension (whatever) in the Latex text. When run, ConvTex does not find the figures, and the exported .swx does not includes the pictures. As a (brute force) solution, after exporting a LyX to Latex, I must add .eps in all figure file names in order to ConvTex work. I can't find in the LyX preferences a way to change that. The converter to export to Latex ( LyX -> Latex converter) doesn't show in the list of converters to try to fix this. Any idea? Thanks Jorge (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in the text. Not good yet)
Re: Converting to OpenOffice -- follow up
Hi Jorge Of course there is another option, one which your colleague may just thank you for in the future -- give him/her a copy of LyX and bring him/her back from the Dark Side ;-} -Neil = Neil Hepburn, Economics Instructor Department of Social Sciences, Augustana Faculty University of Alberta 4901-46 Avenue Camrose, Alberta T4V 2R3 Phone (780) 679-1588 email [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 15-Feb-08, at 7:15 AM, Jorge Sampaio wrote: I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. There are basically 2 options: use ConvTex script and use the LyX converter. Neither one works properly. In fact, IMHO, ConvTex makes the best work... however all figures are converted to .eps (a lot of them are .eps, although I am, by now, preferring .png), This is not the problem, but the fact that to use ConvTex we need first export to LaTex, and then use CovTest to create a .sxw (OpenOffice 1.0 == StarOffice), then convert to (sorry) msword. When LyX exports to LaTex, the extensions in all figures file names are removed (and assumed to be .eps in a latex run). Now, ConvTex does not assumes this, and expects the extension (whatever) in the Latex text. When run, ConvTex does not find the figures, and the exported .swx does not includes the pictures. As a (brute force) solution, after exporting a LyX to Latex, I must add .eps in all figure file names in order to ConvTex work. I can't find in the LyX preferences a way to change that. The converter to export to Latex ( LyX -> Latex converter) doesn't show in the list of converters to try to fix this. Any idea? Thanks Jorge (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in the text. Not good yet)
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
On Fri, Feb 15, 2008, Jorge Sampaio wrote: > I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a > colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. > > (converter to export to OpenOffice messes up considerably the equations in > the text. Not good yet) I've had good luck with tex2word, converting an entire book with many hundreds of equations. And word2tex works pretty well in the reverse direction. Just Google to get information. Neither is perfect, but the results, especially for equations, seem much better than the alternatives you mention. (Grindeq is a similar product, but I have no experience with it.) Of course, these solutions cost money and involve proprietary software, which may be a deal-breaker for some people. ...dave case
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
Jorge Sampaio-2 wrote: > > I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a > colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. > Can you go straight from Lyx through LaTeX to Rich Text Format instead? RTF plays well with Word. I don't know how latex2rtf handles pictures and equations, but it might be worth a try. http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf - David Hewitt Virginia Institute of Marine Science http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Converting-to-OpenOffice-tp15501982p15512336.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Re: Converting to OpenOffice
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:23:11 -0800 (PST) David Hewitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jorge Sampaio-2 wrote: > > > > I need to convert some of my class notes to (sorry) msword so that a > > colleague can change, update, etc. All notes are in LyX. > > > > Can you go straight from Lyx through LaTeX to Rich Text Format > instead? RTF plays well with Word. I don't know how latex2rtf handles > pictures and equations, but it might be worth a try. I convert a book length LaTeX document to OpenOffice using oolatex. It is part of the tex4ht package. I don't know if there is a Windows version. My document doesn't have any pictures or equations, so I can't speak to that. It does have a lot of cross references and special indexes. Alan > > http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf > > > > > - > David Hewitt > Virginia Institute of Marine Science > http://www.vims.edu/fish/students/dhewitt/ > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Converting-to-OpenOffice-tp15501982p15512336.html > Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >
Re: Converting to OpenOffice--Word with htlatex/oolatex
Stefano Franchi wrote: Does anyone have recent experience with conversion from Lyx to Word via htlatex/oolatex? It used to work very well for me in the past, but now I cannot get OpenOffice to open the file produced by htlatex. My procedure: 1. Export from Lyx to plain Latex 2. Run mk4ht oolatex myfile 3. open the resulting .sxw in OpenOffice Here I stop. OpenOffice refuses to open the .sxw file complaining about an error in the xml subdocument. The exact OpenOffice error message is: Read-Error Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at 1034,4 (row,col) Any help greatly appreciated. You must have an old htlatex, the current one creates an odt file. Try updating your htlatex. If you have an error like that. - unzip the odt / sxw file - edit the content file and go the error line and try to understand what triggered the error. - if you can create a minimal example of what went wrong, send it to Eitan Gurari who is very responsive with bugs. oolatex does not like lists in footnotes Cheers, Charles
Re: Converting to OpenOffice--Word with htlatex/oolatex
Stefano Franchi wrote: Does anyone have recent experience with conversion from Lyx to Word via htlatex/oolatex? It used to work very well for me in the past, but now I cannot get OpenOffice to open the file produced by htlatex. My procedure: 1. Export from Lyx to plain Latex 2. Run mk4ht oolatex myfile 3. open the resulting .sxw in OpenOffice Here I stop. OpenOffice refuses to open the .sxw file complaining about an error in the xml subdocument. The exact OpenOffice error message is: Read-Error Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at 1034,4 (row,col) Any help greatly appreciated. You must have an old htlatex, the current one creates an odt file. Try updating your htlatex. If you have an error like that. - unzip the odt / sxw file - edit the content file and go the error line and try to understand what triggered the error. - if you can create a minimal example of what went wrong, send it to Eitan Gurari who is very responsive with bugs. oolatex does not like lists in footnotes Cheers, Charles
Re: Converting to OpenOffice-->Word with htlatex/oolatex
Stefano Franchi wrote: > Does anyone have recent experience with conversion from Lyx to Word via > htlatex/oolatex? > > It used to work very well for me in the past, but now I cannot get > OpenOffice to open the file produced by htlatex. > > My procedure: > > 1. Export from Lyx to plain Latex > 2. Run mk4ht oolatex myfile > 3. open the resulting .sxw in OpenOffice > > Here I stop. OpenOffice refuses to open the .sxw file complaining about > an error in the xml subdocument. > The exact OpenOffice error message is: > > Read-Error > Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at > 1034,4 (row,col) > > > Any help greatly appreciated. > You must have an old htlatex, the current one creates an odt file. Try updating your htlatex. If you have an error like that. - unzip the odt / sxw file - edit the content file and go the error line and try to understand what triggered the error. - if you can create a minimal example of what went wrong, send it to Eitan Gurari who is very responsive with bugs. oolatex does not like lists in footnotes Cheers, Charles
