On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 12:39:52AM -0400, Paul Tremblay wrote: > I am responding to my own message. On second thought, you are using a different method than I am. You are writing your macro in MS word itself, and for that reason, tagging styles probably is not that difficult. Using perl, or python or whatever to convert rtf is a much more difficult task.
good luck Paul > On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 11:32:10PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: > > From: Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Do any of you have experience converting a styles-based Word doc into LyX? > > Would you first use macros to put tags around various styles, and then export > > to text, and then use a script to convert to LyX code? > > > > Thanks > > > Funny you should mention this, because I have been working on a perl > script that converts word.rtf to xml and saves all of the styles. If you > are at all comfortable with using xslt, then converting from xml to LyX > is trivial. > > There may be a better way than this. However, I have been working > extremely hard on my script and believe that converting word to another > marked-up language is as easy as it looks. If you find a way to convert > rtf to LyX let me know. > > > Paul > > -- > > ************************ > *Paul Tremblay * > *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* > ************************ -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *[EMAIL PROTECTED]* ************************
