Dean O'Connor wrote: > I have to take a step back here at say the reason I tried Lyx in the > first place was basically because my Dad writes books and is > constantly > dueling with formatting hassles with Word. > I also have a biz partner who write mountains of doco in Word and is > tired of formatting hassles. > So when I discovered Lyx I thought it might be easier for them, as it > concentrates on structure rather than the hassles with format.
If they really *have* to use Word but want to concentrate on structure rather than formatting, they might find my Author Tools template useful (created for MS Word but inspired by LyX). Click here to download: http://www.editorium.com/ftp/authortemplate.zip Feel free to pass it around. And if you have questions, holler. Thanks! Best wishes, Jack M. Lyon ___________________________________________________ The EDITORIUM Microsoft Word Add-Ins for Publishing Professionals http://www.editorium.com ___________________________________________________ > -----Original Message----- > From: Dean O'Connor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2006 4:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lyx-users@lists.lyx.org; > lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org > Subject: Re: Export/View to HTML/Word/OO.Writer not working at all > > > > well I have downloaded tex4ht-all.zip from > http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/TeX4ht/ and unziped > it in c:/tex4ht. > Also downloaded the newt4ht.zip > <http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/%7Egurari/TeX4ht/fix/newt4ht.zip> from > http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~gurari/TeX4ht/bugfixes.html > and unzipped > it to c:/tex4ht. > > I have mod'd the miktex-install.bat to match the current > package paths, > but still get a few errors and warnings. > > I have to fiddle around trying to put tex4ht.zip in > C:\tex4ht\tex4ht dir. > > Still after all this hackery I still get pretty much same > errors doing a > "htlatex xypic.tex". > > I have yet to try that approach via the setup.exe you said > worked. Seems > a bit over the top to have to install parallel versions of Miktex to > accomplish this. > > I have to take a step back here at say the reason I tried Lyx in the > first place was basically because my Dad writes books and is > constantly > dueling with formatting hassles with Word. > I also have a biz partner who write mountains of doco in Word and is > tired of formatting hassles. > So when I discovered Lyx I thought it might be easier for them, as it > concentrates on structure rather than the hassles with format. > > Now this Lyx bundle offers a nice solution, and I still might go with > it, but I kinda wanted the Export to Word/html as a safety > net if people > required those formats. > I cannot really go thru all this hassle trying to get this install > completely. > > I totally agree with your motto about persistence being the key to > success, but unfortunately I am going to have to toss the > ball back into > the Lyx team's court on this one and hope they can get full Export > capability into the bundle. > They advertise you don't have to delve into the Tex world to > use their > product so I am going to hold them to that :) Certainly is an > impressive > product tho. > > I will check back regularly to see if there is a clean way to install > all this tex4ht component for Lyx.. > > Heaps of thanks for your efforts mate. > > Cheers > Dean. > > > > Steve Harris wrote: > > Dean O'Connor wrote: > >> > > > >> So I guess if I have to get/install tex4ht, where exactly > do I get it > >> from ??? > >> Obviously, it seems only logical all this be included in > the Lyx bundle. > >> > >> Cheers > >> Dean. > >> > >> > > > > The thing is that the whole miktex bundle is around 470mb and > > the link is to about a 202mb installation of Miktex. Some > > things get left out. > > > > You notice that Miktex2.5 is small and doesn't contain > > tex4ht.cab in its download. > > > > I uninstalled Miktex2.4 in order to reproduce your error. > > The 1.4.2 installer doesn't download the tex4ht package. > > > > Afterwards I reinstalled: > > So I used the Miktex setup.exe to download all the 2.4 > > packages (cabs) to a local repository (miktexfiles). Then > > I ran Miktex setup.exe again and chose install from a > > local repository (C:\miktexfiles) to C:\texmf using > > the defaults and choosing Complete. It is time-consuming > > so let it run over lunch. > > > > htlatex works again. I have C:\texmf\miktex\bin in > > Windows Path statement. Otherwise I have sent you two > > posts with urls for the tex*zip files. That is not > > the method I chose, I used the *.cab method. > > > > Good luck, > > Stephen > > >
