On Sunday 16 September 2001 16:54, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Javier López wrote:
> > Please, I am looking for a file converter program
> > from MS Word to Lyx (or another Linux' DB software). Does it exists?
>
> save in word to rtf, than use rtf2latex,
> than try from within lyx relyx.
>
> the easiest way is to save it as ascii and import it
> in LyX. if your word text has not complicated stuff
> try word2x and mvware, too.
>
> see also:
>
> http://www.educat.hu-berlin.de/~voss/lyx/converter.html
wv does a good job sometimes, though can occasionally produce garbage
(something to do with encoding - there was a thread on this some time back).
If you install it and reconfigure LyX, you can then just do
File->Import->Word.
Robin
