On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Andrew Parsloe <apars...@clear.net.nz>wrote:
> > > On 11/02/2014 2:59 a.m., stefano franchi wrote: > >> >> >> </rant>I had to convert a ~50,000 words book from LyX to Word last month >> and it took me 2 full days. I think I tried all exporters known to men >> (and women). They all failed to various degrees. In the end, I had >> better luck converting the file from the pdf (!!!!!) output to word and >> then reinserting manually all footnotes (all 450 of them). I am facing >> the prospect of converting a 200,000 words manuscript in a few months >> and I am already sweating at night at the very idea. <\rant> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Stefano >> >> > Did you just copy & paste from the pdf? That's something I've done before. > The main problem is always that each line on the page in the pdf ends up as > a separate paragraph in the pasted text in Word. How did you handle that? > > I wrote a macro in Word to join up the lines into paragraphs, judging the > end of a paragraph by the existence of a shorter line -- which obviously > fails sometimes. (Copying a pdf followed by paste special has the same > problem in LyX. I have an unfinished script, for the pLyX system, to do the > same in LyX.) > > No I didn't copy and paste. That would have been even worse. In addition to the problem of line-paragraphs you also face the problem of headers and footers, hyphenation, etc. I guess I could have produced a pdf with no hyphenation, no headrs no footers, etc before trying the conversion, but I didn't do that. I used on of the many pdf-to-word or pdf-to-odt utilities available online. I cannot actually remember which one, to be frank. I tried several until I got a reasonable output. I still had to do some cleaning, as some (but not all) apostrophe were lost, and, as I mentioned, all footnotes came through but as text and not as footnote. S. -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
