Hi Anders, I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on the HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described here:
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import While some formatting is lost, it's mostly the type of formatting that I don't really care about (finger painted headings, etc.). Even better, the process can be automated (also described in the article) using a fairly simply python script. Cheers, Rob On Jul 31, 2010, at 7:54 PM, Anders Host-Madsen wrote: > Just a comment here, not a solution. > > A problem is, as stated, that open office produces very poor latex. It seems > that the goal of the designers of the translation module was to make > the latex output resemble the formatting of the open office document, rather > than making the contents the same. That is, they are trying to > 'finger-paint' with latex, directly opposed to the philosophy of LyX. > > I tried to use open office to convert MS Word documents into lyx > (MS Word->OO->Latex->LyX), but had to give up because the > latex produced by OO was so poor. >
