Re: Importing doc documents

On 2010-03-30, stefano franchi wrote: In my, very recent, experience, there are several converters Lyx-Word, but no *robust* one. Problems I encountered yesterday trying to convert a relatively simple 15-pages lyx file that compiled perfectly to pdf into word: -- all character sequences

Re: Importing doc documents

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.dewrote: On 2010-03-30, stefano franchi wrote: In my, very recent, experience, there are several converters Lyx-Word, but no *robust* one. Problems I encountered yesterday trying to convert a relatively simple 15-pages

Re: Importing doc documents

On 2010-03-30, stefano franchi wrote: In my, very recent, experience, there are several converters Lyx-Word, but no *robust* one. Problems I encountered yesterday trying to convert a relatively simple 15-pages lyx file that compiled perfectly to pdf into word: -- all character sequences

Re: Importing doc documents

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Guenter Milde mi...@users.berlios.dewrote: On 2010-03-30, stefano franchi wrote: In my, very recent, experience, there are several converters Lyx-Word, but no *robust* one. Problems I encountered yesterday trying to convert a relatively simple 15-pages

Re: Importing doc documents

On 2010-03-30, stefano franchi wrote: >> In my, very recent, experience, there are several converters >> Lyx->Word, but no *robust* one. > Problems I encountered yesterday trying to convert a relatively simple > 15-pages lyx file that compiled perfectly to pdf into word: > -- all character

Re: Importing doc documents

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 5:42 AM, Guenter Milde wrote: > On 2010-03-30, stefano franchi wrote: > > >> In my, very recent, experience, there are several converters > >> Lyx->Word, but no *robust* one. > > > Problems I encountered yesterday trying to convert a relatively

Re: Importing doc documents

Hi Rob, On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: LyX already imports/exports to nearly every other format under the sun (through the use of external tools, I know), it seems like an oversight to leave out the Word processor used by most people.  If you really

Re: Importing doc documents

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by happy and singing students that are applying for Google code fellowships and otherwise having hysterics over summer plans. While it is too late for LyX to

Re: Importing doc documents

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Alex Fernandez alejandro...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Rob, There is already a registered converter for MS Word. It uses HTML formatting, which Word can import without too much trouble. Unfortunately eLyXer (using the --html option) is not used for this task, even

Re: Importing doc documents

My best experience was with a commercial converter: Tex2Word. It imports many elements, including math and the results is customizable (you can choose to drop paragraph formatting for example). It is not free but the education price is not expensive (it was not when I have bought it years ago).

Re: Importing doc documents

Hi Rob, On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: LyX already imports/exports to nearly every other format under the sun (through the use of external tools, I know), it seems like an oversight to leave out the Word processor used by most people.  If you really

Re: Importing doc documents

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Rob Oakes lyx-de...@oak-tree.us wrote: With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by happy and singing students that are applying for Google code fellowships and otherwise having hysterics over summer plans. While it is too late for LyX to

Re: Importing doc documents

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Alex Fernandez alejandro...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Rob, There is already a registered converter for MS Word. It uses HTML formatting, which Word can import without too much trouble. Unfortunately eLyXer (using the --html option) is not used for this task, even

Re: Importing doc documents

My best experience was with a commercial converter: Tex2Word. It imports many elements, including math and the results is customizable (you can choose to drop paragraph formatting for example). It is not free but the education price is not expensive (it was not when I have bought it years ago).

Re: Importing doc documents

Hi Rob, On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > LyX already imports/exports to nearly every other format under the sun > (through the use of external tools, I know), it seems like an oversight to > leave out the Word processor used by most people.  If you

Re: Importing doc documents

On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: > With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by happy and > singing students that are applying for Google code fellowships and > otherwise > having hysterics over summer plans. While it is too late for

Re: Importing doc documents

On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Hi Rob, > > There is already a registered converter for MS Word. It uses HTML > formatting, which Word can import without too much trouble. > Unfortunately eLyXer (using the --html option) is not used for this >

Re: Importing doc documents

My best experience was with a commercial converter: Tex2Word. It imports many elements, including math and the results is customizable (you can choose to drop paragraph formatting for example). It is not free but the education price is not expensive (it was not when I have bought it years ago).

Re: Importing doc documents

On 2010-03-29, Tim Wescott wrote: rgheck wrote: On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lyx format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files

Re: Importing doc documents

On 03/28/2010 10:37 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Tim Wescottt...@... writes: rgheck wrote: OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can

RE: Importing doc documents

Hi Richard, Interesting project. Thanks for the link. I'll need to play with this and see if I can get it to work. I've been looking for a way of getting from MS Word to LyX and back, and this might help to automate some of it. With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by

Re: Importing doc documents

On 2010-03-29, Tim Wescott wrote: rgheck wrote: On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lyx format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files

Re: Importing doc documents

On 03/28/2010 10:37 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Tim Wescottt...@... writes: rgheck wrote: OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can

RE: Importing doc documents

Hi Richard, Interesting project. Thanks for the link. I'll need to play with this and see if I can get it to work. I've been looking for a way of getting from MS Word to LyX and back, and this might help to automate some of it. With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by

Re: Importing doc documents

On 2010-03-29, Tim Wescott wrote: > rgheck wrote: >> On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: >>> those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert >>> sources in MS Word .doc format into .lyx format. >>> On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open

Re: Importing doc documents

On 03/28/2010 10:37 PM, Paul Rubin wrote: Tim Wescott writes: rgheck wrote: OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this

RE: Importing doc documents

Hi Richard, Interesting project. Thanks for the link. I'll need to play with this and see if I can get it to work. I've been looking for a way of getting from MS Word to LyX and back, and this might help to automate some of it. With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by

Re: Importing doc documents

From where can I download Word2Lyx? Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein/Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *The laboratory of Visual Computational Neuroscience* Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical

Re: Importing doc documents

rgheck wrote: On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: Dear all, those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files and save them in various

Re: Importing doc documents

Tim Wescott t...@... writes: rgheck wrote: OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can be done with a script, such as the

Re: Importing doc documents

From where can I download Word2Lyx? Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein/Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *The laboratory of Visual Computational Neuroscience* Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical

Re: Importing doc documents

rgheck wrote: On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: Dear all, those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files and save them in various

Re: Importing doc documents

Tim Wescott t...@... writes: rgheck wrote: OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can be done with a script, such as the

Re: Importing doc documents

From where can I download Word2Lyx? Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D. Jules and Doris Stein/Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor *The laboratory of Visual& Computational Neuroscience* Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology,

Re: Importing doc documents

rgheck wrote: On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: Dear all, those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files and save them in various

Re: Importing doc documents

Tim Wescott writes: > > rgheck wrote: > > OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. I have used it often > > myself, but with old WordPerfect files, and you are right of course > > that the output file could use some cleaning up. Much of this can be > > done with a script, such as

Re: Importing doc documents

On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: Dear all, those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files and save them in various other formats,

Re: Importing doc documents

On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: Dear all, those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files and save them in various other formats,

Re: Importing doc documents

On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote: Dear all, those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format. On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open doc files and save them in various other formats,