On 20 Feb 2005, Milos Komarcevic wrote:

> I've noticed that the GnuWin32 project ported wvWare for converting Word 
> documents, and LyX supports it, so I thought I'd give it a try. Here are 
> the results.
> 
> As expected, doesn't work out of the box because wvCleanLatex that LyX 
> calls is a shell script (a bit useless since GnuWin32 doesn't provide a 
> shell???). Tried invoking it with MSYS sh.exe that comes with Ruurd's port 
> of LyX, but no dice, that sh.exe doesn't understand commands like 
> 'basename' etc. So I did my own Win .bat file (very primitive, equivalent 
> to only the last line of the original script, i.e. doesn't do any input 
> checks, please feel welcome to extend it).
> 
> Here goes:
> 
> - create GnuWin32\bin\wvCleanLatex.bat with the following line
> 
>   @ wvWare -x %~dp0..\share\wv\wvCleanLatex.xml -d %~dp2 -b %~n2 %1 > %2
> 
> - make sure GnuWin32\bin is in your path
> 
> - reconfigure LyX, restart and you're ready to go (there still the isuue of 
> a .relyx1 file not being cleaned up)
> 
> If you found this useful, could someone please add it to the Wiki.

Eh.. you do know that you can add it yourself, don't you? (The "secret" 
password is simply "LyX" :-)

regards
/Christian

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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44               http://www.md.kth.se/~chr


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