<SNIP> > > This is by far the best solution, in my opinion. > > Unfortunately for me, my only Windows machine is a 1997 Pentium > II/300 with 128MB of RAM, which would be painfully slow.
Steve, What happens if you import the RTF file into OO and then follow the procedures suggested? Alan > > Therefore, I'll be doing the simple stuff on the RTF using Vim with > my Athlon XP2600+ with 1.5GB of RAM. So far I've: > > tweak1.rtf: Put start tags on heading levels 1-7 > tweak2.rtf: Put start and end tags on every character style > tweak3.rtf: Put the string "tablecell" in every cell of every table > > The next thing I'd like to do is mark and label every grapic so they > can be quickly restored in the LyX document. I'm trying to see an > easy way to do it within the RTF file -- if not, I'll do it like you > said -- word macros. > > My user defined paragraph styles cannot reasonably be tagged in Vim > -- the RTF can vary too much to detect a pattern, at least without > programming in major parts of the RTF spec. So for those I'll do just > what you say -- Word macros to insert start and end tags for each > style. > > After that, theoretically I can export to plain text, run some > scripts to convert it to LyX, and then the rest will be reasonably > simple cleanup. > > Thanks for the great suggestion. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Recession Relief Package > http://www.recession-relief.US > >
