Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well with lots of math equations. But over the years, Word has handled math in a bunch of different ways, so I'd recommend getting an evaluation version first, and making sure it works for your particular word documents.

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well with lots of math equations. But over the years, Word has handled math in a bunch of different ways, so I'd recommend getting an evaluation version first, and making sure it works for your particular word documents.

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

> My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well > with "lots of math equations". But over the years, Word has handled math > in a bunch of different ways, so I'd recommend getting an evaluation version > first, and making sure it works for your particular word

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

Murat Yildizoglu myi...@gmail.com wrote: You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. I use word2tex from Chikrii Software (it is a commercial soft, with an interesting education price), it allows me to save in latex from Word. You can customize what you want to

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012, Wilfried wrote: Even at least one publisher of scientific journals (I don't remember who) requests authors NOT to use the new Word 2007 - 2010 equation editor but the old equation editor or MathType. This is common in my field (chemistry): scientific journals ask for

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

Murat Yildizoglu myi...@gmail.com wrote: You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. I use word2tex from Chikrii Software (it is a commercial soft, with an interesting education price), it allows me to save in latex from Word. You can customize what you want to

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012, Wilfried wrote: Even at least one publisher of scientific journals (I don't remember who) requests authors NOT to use the new Word 2007 - 2010 equation editor but the old equation editor or MathType. This is common in my field (chemistry): scientific journals ask for

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. I > use word2tex from Chikrii Software (it is a commercial soft, with an > interesting education price), it allows me to save in latex from Word. You > can customize what you

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012, Wilfried wrote: > > Even at least one publisher of > scientific journals (I don't remember who) requests authors NOT to use > the new Word 2007 - 2010 equation editor but the old equation editor or > MathType. This is common in my field (chemistry): scientific journals ask

copying from MS Word to LyX

Hi, I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there any way to do it? I see that this issue was discussed in the past in this forum, and the suggestion was to write the doc file in the html

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. I use word2tex from Chikrii Software (it is a commercial soft, with an interesting education price), it allows me to save in latex from Word. You can customize what you want to include in the translation (I keep only the

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well with lots of math equations.

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there any way to do it? I see that this issue was discussed in the past in this forum, and the

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On 01/09/2012 08:06 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. oolatex goes the other way. But Libre Office (the successor to Open Office) can export a file as LaTeX. Richard

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

Thanks Richard for the correction, I have mixed these two-way packages... I was thinking about the writer2latex filter that allows us to save in Latex format (I use it with NeoOffice, under OSX). 2012/1/9 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net On 01/09/2012 08:06 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: You

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net írta: On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there any way to do it? I see that this issue was

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

You should be able to install the extension writer2latex that normally gives this filter for the save dialog. -- Murat Yildizoglu yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr Le 9 janv. 2012 à 20:48, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu a écrit : Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net írta: On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw

copying from MS Word to LyX

Hi, I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there any way to do it? I see that this issue was discussed in the past in this forum, and the suggestion was to write the doc file in the html

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. I use word2tex from Chikrii Software (it is a commercial soft, with an interesting education price), it allows me to save in latex from Word. You can customize what you want to include in the translation (I keep only the

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well with lots of math equations.

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there any way to do it? I see that this issue was discussed in the past in this forum, and the

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On 01/09/2012 08:06 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. oolatex goes the other way. But Libre Office (the successor to Open Office) can export a file as LaTeX. Richard

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

Thanks Richard for the correction, I have mixed these two-way packages... I was thinking about the writer2latex filter that allows us to save in Latex format (I use it with NeoOffice, under OSX). 2012/1/9 Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net On 01/09/2012 08:06 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: You

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net írta: On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there any way to do it? I see that this issue was

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

You should be able to install the extension writer2latex that normally gives this filter for the save dialog. -- Murat Yildizoglu yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr Le 9 janv. 2012 à 20:48, Csikos Bela bcsikos...@freemail.hu a écrit : Richard Heck rgh...@comcast.net írta: On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw

copying from MS Word to LyX

Hi, I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there any way to do it? I see that this issue was discussed in the past in this forum, and the suggestion was to write the doc file in the html

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. I use word2tex from Chikrii Software (it is a commercial soft, with an interesting education price), it allows me to save in latex from Word. You can customize what you want to include in the translation (I keep only the

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On Mon, Jan 09, 2012, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: > > I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing > lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well with "lots of math

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote: Hi, I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there any way to do it? I see that this issue was discussed in the past in this forum, and the

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

On 01/09/2012 08:06 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. oolatex goes the other way. But Libre Office (the successor to Open Office) can export a file as LaTeX. Richard

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

Thanks Richard for the correction, I have mixed these two-way packages... I was thinking about the writer2latex filter that allows us to save in Latex format (I use it with NeoOffice, under OSX). 2012/1/9 Richard Heck > On 01/09/2012 08:06 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote: > >>

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck írta: >>On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote:> >> Hi,> >> >> I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, >> >>containing> >> lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there >> >>any way to do it? I see

Re: copying from MS Word to LyX

You should be able to install the extension writer2latex that normally gives this filter for the save dialog. -- Murat Yildizoglu yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr Le 9 janv. 2012 à 20:48, Csikos Bela a écrit : > Richard Heck írta: >>> On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM,

Re: MS Word to LyX

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard to judge from the trial version, and the real version is quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is non-existent).

Re: MS Word to LyX

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard to judge from the trial version, and the real version is quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is non-existent).

Re: MS Word to LyX

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to > do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard > to judge from the trial version, and the real version is > quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is > non-existent).

Re: MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if it runs on Windows. See here: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They refer to AbiWord, But I couldn't make

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if it runs on Windows. See here: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They refer

Re: MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if it runs on Windows. See here: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They refer to AbiWord, But I couldn't make

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if it runs on Windows. See here: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They refer

Re: MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck writes: > There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if > it runs on Windows. See here: > http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ > But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They refer to AbiWord, But I couldn't

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: Richard Heck writes: There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if it runs on Windows. See here: http://wvware.sourceforge.net/ But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux. I looked vwLatex. They

MS Word to LyX

LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to convert my old MS Word documents -- with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise about this? I found two commercial packages for conversion to LaTeX: Grind EQ and

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to convert my old MS Word documents -- with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise about this? I found two commercial packages for

Re: MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: OpenOffice will export LaTeX. You should be able to load your Word docs there, and then export. Might be no worse. You WILL have to do hand editing, one way or the other. There's just no way around it. I tried to install open office (neo office). It does

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: I tried to install open office (neo office). It does convert to LaTeX. But the issue is that it seems the philosophy in the OO converter is to make the typeset LaTeX document look like the OO document, rather than conveying the meaning/contents of the document --

MS Word to LyX

LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to convert my old MS Word documents -- with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise about this? I found two commercial packages for conversion to LaTeX: Grind EQ and

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to convert my old MS Word documents -- with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise about this? I found two commercial packages for

Re: MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck rgh...@... writes: OpenOffice will export LaTeX. You should be able to load your Word docs there, and then export. Might be no worse. You WILL have to do hand editing, one way or the other. There's just no way around it. I tried to install open office (neo office). It does

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: I tried to install open office (neo office). It does convert to LaTeX. But the issue is that it seems the philosophy in the OO converter is to make the typeset LaTeX document look like the OO document, rather than conveying the meaning/contents of the document --

MS Word to LyX

LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to convert my old MS Word documents -- with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise about this? I found two commercial packages for conversion to LaTeX: Grind EQ and

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to convert my old MS Word documents -- with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise about this? I found two commercial packages for

Re: MS Word to LyX

Richard Heck writes: > > > OpenOffice will export LaTeX. You should be able to load your Word docs > there, and then export. Might be no worse. You WILL have to do hand > editing, one way or the other. There's just no way around it. I tried to install open office (neo office).

Re: MS Word to LyX

Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > I tried to install open office (neo office). It does convert to LaTeX. > But the issue is that it seems the philosophy in the OO converter is to > make the typeset > LaTeX document look like the OO document, rather than conveying the > meaning/contents > of the

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Manveru wrote: Have you ever merge XML? I tried - it is horrible work. It depends entirely on how the XML document is formatted. There's nothing that prevents XML with sensible line breaks, for example. I keep lots of XHTML documents in CVS. They're well-formatted, so merging works just

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Steve Litt wrote: Trouble is, replacing \begin..\end with .../ is a hack. LyX developers have defined LyX native format as \begin always is the first character on a line. There's no such requirement in XML, and if we require it, that's a hack. If we don't require it, LyX-XML parsing becomes

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Michael Wojcik wrote: I don't expect the switch to XML to cause me any problems, and to be honest I'm a bit puzzled by all the worrying. /me too :-) Abdel.

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Manveru wrote: Have you ever merge XML? I tried - it is horrible work. It depends entirely on how the XML document is formatted. There's nothing that prevents XML with sensible line breaks, for example. I keep lots of XHTML documents in CVS. They're well-formatted, so merging works just

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Steve Litt wrote: Trouble is, replacing \begin..\end with .../ is a hack. LyX developers have defined LyX native format as \begin always is the first character on a line. There's no such requirement in XML, and if we require it, that's a hack. If we don't require it, LyX-XML parsing becomes

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Michael Wojcik wrote: I don't expect the switch to XML to cause me any problems, and to be honest I'm a bit puzzled by all the worrying. /me too :-) Abdel.

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Manveru wrote: Have you ever merge XML? I tried - it is horrible work. It depends entirely on how the XML document is formatted. There's nothing that prevents XML with sensible line breaks, for example. I keep lots of XHTML documents in CVS. They're well-formatted, so merging works just

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Steve Litt wrote: Trouble is, replacing \begin..\end with <>... is a hack. LyX developers have defined LyX native format as \begin always is the first character on a line. There's no such requirement in XML, and if we require it, that's a hack. If we don't require it, LyX-XML parsing becomes

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

Michael Wojcik wrote: I don't expect the switch to XML to cause me any problems, and to be honest I'm a bit puzzled by all the worrying. /me too :-) Abdel.

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see why it

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

G. Milde wrote: On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see why it

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

G. Milde wrote: On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't see

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To the discussion about data format preference: > > > > I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data > > formats. And this discussion

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: > On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > To the discussion about data format preference: > > > > > > ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. > > > > I

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

G. Milde wrote: On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote: On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work. I don't

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

John McCabe-Dansted wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. or you have some particular

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. or you have some

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is remeber about. How many LyX user are working in large team projects? How often they have to

My MS Word to LyX conversion is more or less finished

Hi all, A couple days ago it took the entire day to change all the tables from markers to real tables. It was a tough job. Today I put in the 10 images into the book. What made it hard was that the old images were object embbedded Micrografx Windows Draw images. MGX Windows Draw was a

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is remeber about. How many

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. or you have some particular

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. or you have some

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is remeber about. How many LyX user are working in large team projects? How often they have to

My MS Word to LyX conversion is more or less finished

Hi all, A couple days ago it took the entire day to change all the tables from markers to real tables. It was a tough job. Today I put in the 10 images into the book. What made it hard was that the old images were object embbedded Micrografx Windows Draw images. MGX Windows Draw was a

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is remeber about. How many

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: > frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. > my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will > happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. > > or you have some

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

> On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote: > > frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. > > my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will > > happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk. > > > > or you have

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

To the discussion about data format preference: I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost nobody is remeber about. How many LyX user are working in large team projects? How often they have to

My MS Word to LyX conversion is more or less finished

Hi all, A couple days ago it took the entire day to change all the tables from markers to real tables. It was a tough job. Today I put in the 10 images into the book. What made it hard was that the old images were object embbedded Micrografx Windows Draw images. MGX Windows Draw was a

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To the discussion about data format preference: > > I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data > formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost > nobody is remeber about. How

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:24:16 Pavel Sanda wrote: this depends on what you master. i'm used on the bunch of small unix utilities so i gave that sed example. if you know python you will do in python. my point was not propose the best tools but to groan and moan about xml :) FWIW this chunk

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: As a sed/awk/perl/ruby parser, I appreciate that very much. The more I think about it, the more I think I should make the XML-YAML and YAML-XML converters. That way, if future generations of LyX project programmers forget why it's important to space

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

what I claim is that we need better script tools to handle lyx documents. Those tools should be stable across lyx versions and should not depend of any particular file format. frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

I understand DTD simplicity... but it is no longer fresh these days. Schema allows better understanding and can be processed by XSLT. 2008/7/23 John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 08:04:59 am Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote:

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:24:16 Pavel Sanda wrote: this depends on what you master. i'm used on the bunch of small unix utilities so i gave that sed example. if you know python you will do in python. my point was not propose the best tools but to groan and moan about xml :) FWIW this chunk

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: As a sed/awk/perl/ruby parser, I appreciate that very much. The more I think about it, the more I think I should make the XML-YAML and YAML-XML converters. That way, if future generations of LyX project programmers forget why it's important to space

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

what I claim is that we need better script tools to handle lyx documents. Those tools should be stable across lyx versions and should not depend of any particular file format. frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it. my feeling is that the xml-branch commit

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion

I understand DTD simplicity... but it is no longer fresh these days. Schema allows better understanding and can be processed by XSLT. 2008/7/23 John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wednesday 23 July 2008 08:04:59 am Steve Litt wrote: On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote: Steve Litt wrote:

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:24:16 Pavel Sanda wrote: > this depends on what you master. i'm used on the bunch of small unix > utilities so i gave that sed example. if you know python you will do in > python. my point was not propose the best tools but to groan and moan about > xml :) FWIW this

Re: Progress on the MS Word to LyX conversion (xml)

On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: As a sed/awk/perl/ruby parser, I appreciate that very much. The more I think about it, the more I think I should make the XML->YAML and YAML->XML converters. That way, if future generations of LyX project programmers forget why it's important to space

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