On 20.07.2008, at 05:44, Steve Litt wrote:
On Saturday 19 July 2008 19:57, Typhoon wrote:
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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?
I don't know. I don't trust OO Writer as far as I can throw my
house. OO
Writer's not touching my book.
About 2 years ago, during one of my occasional "I'm mad at LyX"
months, I
evaluated OO Writer as book writing software. What I would have lost
in
typeset quality, I hoped to gain in faster creation of styles.
However, OO
Writer kept changing styles all by itself. It was one of the most
untrustworthy pieces of software I've ever seen. That gave me an
incentive to
learn a lot more about LyX style creation.
Steve,
Do not close this door to early. While I can understand very well that
you actually do not like OO Writer, I think you should give it another
try -- you do not have to really work with it.
Even if all that Writer2LaTeX stuff does not work, OO Writer might be
a good transition format:
(1) OO Writer preserves the structure of styles when importing from
Word (AFAIK).
(2) OO uses an XML-based document format (zips them on disk, but you
can just use a common unzip tool to get the actual content)
The XLM-based representation is for sure a better source for script-
based / structure-preserving transformation than RTF.
Daniel
