Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-22 Thread Helge Hafting
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?

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-22 Thread Helge Hafting
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?

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-22 Thread Helge Hafting
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?

Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread Jorge Sampaio
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Hepburn
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice -- follow up

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Hepburn
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread David A. Case
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread David Hewitt
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread Typhoon
/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.

Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread Jorge Sampaio
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Hepburn
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice -- follow up

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Hepburn
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread David A. Case
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread David Hewitt
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread Typhoon
/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.

Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread Jorge Sampaio
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Hepburn
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice -- follow up

2008-02-15 Thread Neil Hepburn
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread David A. Case
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread David Hewitt
2rtf 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-t

Re: Converting to OpenOffice

2008-02-15 Thread Typhoon
> - > 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

2007-07-04 Thread cmiramon
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice--Word with htlatex/oolatex

2007-07-04 Thread cmiramon
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

Re: Converting to OpenOffice-->Word with htlatex/oolatex

2007-07-04 Thread cmiramon
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

Converting to OpenOffice--Word with htlatex/oolatex

2007-07-02 Thread Stefano Franchi
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

Converting to OpenOffice--Word with htlatex/oolatex

2007-07-02 Thread Stefano Franchi
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

Converting to OpenOffice-->Word with htlatex/oolatex

2007-07-02 Thread Stefano Franchi
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