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> 
> 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
> 
> 

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