Re: Converting from chm to Lyx

2015-10-13 Thread Richard Heck 

On 10/13/2015 12:33 AM, Gordon Cooper wrote:

 I need to edit an elderly .chm help file and produce it in pdf. The
easiest edit  looks to be with Lyx.


What program produced this file? If it can import into LibreOffice,
then you can export LaTeX from there, and import that into LyX.

Richard

Re: Converting from chm to Lyx

2015-10-13 Thread Gordon Cooper 

Thanks for the replies.  The file is the help section of
a CAD programme with 400 pages and many graphics.
I can print  it directly to pdf but it needs editing, which
would be easier in Lyx, hence the question.

Richard,  will look at importing into LO.

Gordon.

RE: Converting from chm to Lyx

2015-10-13 Thread Hannu Vuolasaho 
I don't know how much other things there are but
they are compressed HTML files.
 
Wikipedia gives quite good list of tools which can
extract files from them. Rebuilding back to CHM
might be harder.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Compiled_HTML_Help
 
Best regards,
Hannu Vuolasaho


> Subject: Re: Converting from chm to Lyx
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> From: gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz
> Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:46:44 +1300
>
> Thanks for the replies. The file is the help section of
> a CAD programme with 400 pages and many graphics.
> I can print it directly to pdf but it needs editing, which
> would be easier in Lyx, hence the question.
>
> Richard, will look at importing into LO.
>
> Gordon.
>
>
>
>

Converting from chm to Lyx

2015-10-12 Thread Gordon Cooper 

 I need to edit an elderly .chm help file and produce it in pdf. The
easiest edit  looks to be with Lyx.

 Has anyone done this conversion? I have looked in the archive,
 with a negative result.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.