Paul --

Maybe you and I could work together.

Steve

On Monday 22 July 2002 12:29 pm, Paul Tremblay wrote:
> 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
> >
> > --
> >
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