Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Wilfried]

Justin Wood wrote:
 
  Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX?
 
 I think I answered my own question there. It seems to come down to that issue:
 no easy route from XeTeX to LaTeX for latex2rtf to work. Kinda obvious I 
 guess!

I have no answer to your original question (how to set up latex2rtf in
LyX), but want to point out that latex2rtf itself doesn't care whether
the document is designed for LaTeX of XeTeX -- I recently converted a
XeTeX document with latex2rtf. Successful conversion rather depends on
whether the document restricts to the packages supported by latex2rtf.

The only caveat is that the current distribution of latex2rtf can
convert equations of a document needing XeTeX to rtf (EQ fields) but not
to bitmaps or eps, because the script latex2png only tries latex or
pdflatex. I already modified the latex2png script so that it now also
tries xetex, but this is not yet in the latex2rtf distribution, only in
the svn branch on sourceforge.

Regards
-- 
Wilfried Hennings

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Wilfried]

Justin Wood wrote:
 
  Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX?
 
 I think I answered my own question there. It seems to come down to that issue:
 no easy route from XeTeX to LaTeX for latex2rtf to work. Kinda obvious I 
 guess!

I have no answer to your original question (how to set up latex2rtf in
LyX), but want to point out that latex2rtf itself doesn't care whether
the document is designed for LaTeX of XeTeX -- I recently converted a
XeTeX document with latex2rtf. Successful conversion rather depends on
whether the document restricts to the packages supported by latex2rtf.

The only caveat is that the current distribution of latex2rtf can
convert equations of a document needing XeTeX to rtf (EQ fields) but not
to bitmaps or eps, because the script latex2png only tries latex or
pdflatex. I already modified the latex2png script so that it now also
tries xetex, but this is not yet in the latex2rtf distribution, only in
the svn branch on sourceforge.

Regards
-- 
Wilfried Hennings

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Wilfried]

Justin Wood wrote:
 
> > Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX?
> 
> I think I answered my own question there. It seems to come down to that issue:
> no easy route from XeTeX to LaTeX for latex2rtf to work. Kinda obvious I 
> guess!

I have no answer to your original question (how to set up latex2rtf in
LyX), but want to point out that latex2rtf itself doesn't care whether
the document is designed for LaTeX of XeTeX -- I recently converted a
XeTeX document with latex2rtf. Successful conversion rather depends on
whether the document restricts to the packages supported by latex2rtf.

The only caveat is that the current distribution of latex2rtf can
convert equations of a document needing XeTeX to rtf (EQ fields) but not
to bitmaps or eps, because the script latex2png only tries latex or
pdflatex. I already modified the latex2png script so that it now also
tries xetex, but this is not yet in the latex2rtf distribution, only in
the svn branch on sourceforge.

Regards
-- 
Wilfried Hennings

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Justin Wood]

Justin Wood Justin.Wood at murdoch.edu.au writes:

 Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX?

I think I answered my own question there. It seems to come down to that issue:
no easy route from XeTeX to LaTeX for latex2rtf to work. Kinda obvious I guess!

All this so I can give my thesis chapters to supervisors in Word for feedback
via track changes. I think it would have been simpler to just install LyX on
their machines...

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Or write xtetex2rtf :-)-O

Does it really matter, when using LyX, which back end one uses?

el

on 2013-02-07 09:56 Justin Wood said the following:
 Justin Wood Justin.Wood at murdoch.edu.au writes:
 
 Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX?
 
 I think I answered my own question there. It seems to come down to that issue:
 no easy route from XeTeX to LaTeX for latex2rtf to work. Kinda obvious I 
 guess!
 
 All this so I can give my thesis chapters to supervisors in Word for feedback
 via track changes. I think it would have been simpler to just install LyX on
 their machines...
 
 
 
 

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Justin Wood]

Dr Eberhard Lisse nospam at lisse.NA writes:

 
 Or write xtetex2rtf -O
 
 Does it really matter, when using LyX, which back end one uses?
 
 el
 

I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean why use XeTeX? Largely for the font support,
but also because I thought it was the superior engine these days. Perhaps that
was foolish.

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Justin Wood justin.w...@murdoch.edu.au wrote:
 I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean why use XeTeX? Largely for the font 
 support,

In my experience XeTeX typesetting is inferior to that of LaTeX. But
then I'm no expert.

Liviu

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Justin Wood]

Justin Wood Justin.Wood at murdoch.edu.au writes:

 Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX?

I think I answered my own question there. It seems to come down to that issue:
no easy route from XeTeX to LaTeX for latex2rtf to work. Kinda obvious I guess!

All this so I can give my thesis chapters to supervisors in Word for feedback
via track changes. I think it would have been simpler to just install LyX on
their machines...

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Or write xtetex2rtf :-)-O

Does it really matter, when using LyX, which back end one uses?

el

on 2013-02-07 09:56 Justin Wood said the following:
 Justin Wood Justin.Wood at murdoch.edu.au writes:
 
 Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX?
 
 I think I answered my own question there. It seems to come down to that issue:
 no easy route from XeTeX to LaTeX for latex2rtf to work. Kinda obvious I 
 guess!
 
 All this so I can give my thesis chapters to supervisors in Word for feedback
 via track changes. I think it would have been simpler to just install LyX on
 their machines...
 
 
 
 

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Justin Wood]

Dr Eberhard Lisse nospam at lisse.NA writes:

 
 Or write xtetex2rtf -O
 
 Does it really matter, when using LyX, which back end one uses?
 
 el
 

I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean why use XeTeX? Largely for the font support,
but also because I thought it was the superior engine these days. Perhaps that
was foolish.

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Justin Wood justin.w...@murdoch.edu.au wrote:
 I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean why use XeTeX? Largely for the font 
 support,

In my experience XeTeX typesetting is inferior to that of LaTeX. But
then I'm no expert.

Liviu

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Justin Wood]

Justin Wood  murdoch.edu.au> writes:

> Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX?

I think I answered my own question there. It seems to come down to that issue:
no easy route from XeTeX to LaTeX for latex2rtf to work. Kinda obvious I guess!

All this so I can give my thesis chapters to supervisors in Word for feedback
via track changes. I think it would have been simpler to just install LyX on
their machines...

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Dr Eberhard Lisse]

Or write xtetex2rtf :-)-O

Does it really matter, when using LyX, which back end one uses?

el

on 2013-02-07 09:56 Justin Wood said the following:
> Justin Wood  murdoch.edu.au> writes:
> 
>> Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX?
> 
> I think I answered my own question there. It seems to come down to that issue:
> no easy route from XeTeX to LaTeX for latex2rtf to work. Kinda obvious I 
> guess!
> 
> All this so I can give my thesis chapters to supervisors in Word for feedback
> via track changes. I think it would have been simpler to just install LyX on
> their machines...
> 
> 
> 
> 

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Justin Wood]

Dr Eberhard Lisse  lisse.NA> writes:

> 
> Or write xtetex2rtf -O
> 
> Does it really matter, when using LyX, which back end one uses?
> 
> el
> 

I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean why use XeTeX? Largely for the font support,
but also because I thought it was the superior engine these days. Perhaps that
was foolish.

Re: configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Liviu Andronic]

On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:23 PM, Justin Wood  wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow. Do you mean why use XeTeX? Largely for the font 
> support,
>
In my experience XeTeX typesetting is inferior to that of LaTeX. But
then I'm no expert.

Liviu

configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Justin Wood]

Hi all. I've read the instructions for using latex2rtf with LyX here
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf, but can't
get it to work. This is on v2.0.4 on a Win7 box (but I also have an OS X
setup). I've installed latex2rtf as the Win exe and to get around the white
space issue I've made a junction from d:\utils\latex2rtf -- c:\Program Files
(x86)\latex2rtf. I believe this is working correctly as it's picked up in
the configuration log:
INFO: checking for a LaTeX - RTF converter...
INFO: +checking for latex2rtf...  no
INFO: +checking for latex2rt...  yes
DEBUG: Add to RC:
\converter latex  rtflatex2rt -p -S -o $$o $$ineedaux

But nothing I've tried has made the RTF option appear in the File - Export
menu, or View. I'm pretty hazy on what actually governs that in general to
be honest, as many options in Preferences are 'enabled' but do not appear
in the list. I read in the latex2rtf manual that the tmp aux files need to
exist, so I tried running View - PDF (XeTeX) but no joy.

Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX? Thanks!


~:Justin Wood:~
PhD candidate, *School of **Engineering**  **Information Technology*, Murdoch
University http://www.murdoch.edu.au/

configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Justin Wood]

Hi all. I've read the instructions for using latex2rtf with LyX here
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf, but can't
get it to work. This is on v2.0.4 on a Win7 box (but I also have an OS X
setup). I've installed latex2rtf as the Win exe and to get around the white
space issue I've made a junction from d:\utils\latex2rtf -- c:\Program Files
(x86)\latex2rtf. I believe this is working correctly as it's picked up in
the configuration log:
INFO: checking for a LaTeX - RTF converter...
INFO: +checking for latex2rtf...  no
INFO: +checking for latex2rt...  yes
DEBUG: Add to RC:
\converter latex  rtflatex2rt -p -S -o $$o $$ineedaux

But nothing I've tried has made the RTF option appear in the File - Export
menu, or View. I'm pretty hazy on what actually governs that in general to
be honest, as many options in Preferences are 'enabled' but do not appear
in the list. I read in the latex2rtf manual that the tmp aux files need to
exist, so I tried running View - PDF (XeTeX) but no joy.

Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX? Thanks!


~:Justin Wood:~
PhD candidate, *School of **Engineering**  **Information Technology*, Murdoch
University http://www.murdoch.edu.au/

configuring latex2rtf with LyX 2

[Justin Wood]

Hi all. I've read the instructions for using latex2rtf with LyX here
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/ExportingRichTextFormatWithLaTeX2rtf, but can't
get it to work. This is on v2.0.4 on a Win7 box (but I also have an OS X
setup). I've installed latex2rtf as the Win exe and to get around the white
space issue I've made a junction from d:\utils\latex2rtf --> c:\Program Files
(x86)\latex2rtf. I believe this is working correctly as it's picked up in
the configuration log:
INFO: checking for a LaTeX -> RTF converter...
INFO: +checking for "latex2rtf"...  no
INFO: +checking for "latex2rt"...  yes
DEBUG: Add to RC:
\converter latex  rtf"latex2rt -p -S -o $$o $$i""needaux"

But nothing I've tried has made the RTF option appear in the File -> Export
menu, or View. I'm pretty hazy on what actually governs that in general to
be honest, as many options in Preferences are 'enabled' but do not appear
in the list. I read in the latex2rtf manual that the tmp aux files need to
exist, so I tried running View -> PDF (XeTeX) but no joy.

Could the problem be that I'm using XeTeX rather than default LaTeX? Thanks!


~:Justin Wood:~
PhD candidate, *School of **Engineering** & **Information Technology*, Murdoch
University