stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> writes: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Cyrille Artho <c.ar...@aist.go.jp> wrote: >> I agree. A user who is interested in using LyX is also going to install >> LibreOffice (if it's not already installed). Furthermore, we can't expect >> student participants to pay hundreds of dollars just to be able to test the >> converter. >> >> >> Richard Heck wrote: >>> >>> On 02/24/2014 06:11 PM, stefano franchi wrote: >>>> >>>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Georg Baum >>>> <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Rainer M Krug wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> As far as I know, doc is a non documented binary format - so I would >>>>>> definitely not go there. >>>>> >>>>> AFAIK there are many details known about .doc, but this is a dead >>>>> format, >>>>> and any round trip that uses it will be obsolete rather sooner than >>>>> later. >>>>> >>>> >>>> I agree completely. Let's avoid dead formats and focus on the choice >>>> Word vs. ODF >>> >>> >>> I would have thought it was in the spirit of the project to focus on ODF. >>> Word reads and writes it, and anyone who's a Word-user can download and >>> use >>> Libre Office for free without much loss. >>> > > > I agree, in principle and on practical grounds too (see the > possibility to leverage tex4ht). However, it is true that the eventual > users of the Lyx-->Doc converter (and of the roundtrip tool) will > overwhelmingly be Word users, not LibreOffice users. Before we choose > to go down the ODF path I would very much like to test whether the > core features we are interested in---semantic marking, footnotes, > math, changes, notes and possibly frames---can survive the > ODF<-->Word round trip. > > Is anyone with Word willing to carry out the test? I can provide a > test document in ODF format.
I can test it on a Mac. If you send me the document privately, I can 1) save it in LibreOffice 4.1.2.3 as .docx 2) open it in MS Word:Mac 2011 14.3.9 3) compare the documents 4) do a minor edit (if you have any specific edits I shoud do, please let me know) 5) save it again 6) open it in LibreOffice I will also create pdfs of each stage. We have to keep in mind, that it seems that at least MS Office 2011 on a Mac *can not* read and write .odt files. If somebody using a newer version of OS Office for Mac can confirm this? Cheers, Rainer > > > S. -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
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