Stefano Franchi helped me by doing a pretty neat translation of .doc to Lyx. I found it very usable, and am grateful to him.
Earlier, he advocated this route: QUOTE from the post by Stefano: The conversion is never pretty, I am afraid. I usually follow this path: 1. in word (or equivalent) save from doc to rtf 2. convert rtf to latex with rtftolatex2e (in Linux and, I think, MacOs X. I do not know if a version for windows exists) 3. clean up the tex file in a text editor (in particular, remove all the \tab commands, take a close look at the font commads) 4. import the latex file into lyx It may work for you. Others have suggested the html route UNQUOTE FN PS: I did have to remove a lot of \tab commands, and some \dots, but that was all... far better than manually resetting! Thanks, Stefano!!! Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 On 29 November 2010 00:52, Jim Oldfield <jim_...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I managed to convert doc -> html -> tex -> lyx (I had to install htmltotex > first), but the results were unusable - all non-ASCII characters were > screwed up in the .tex file, and LyX couldn't even convert it to a .lyx. > Copying and pasting from Word to LyX works, but doesn't preserve any of the > formatting (not that it was properly formatted in Word anyway - it was > "finger painted" with explicit fonts, rather than using styles). That's all > I can think to do, sorry! > > Jim > > > *From:* Frederick Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> > *To:* Jim Oldfield <jim_...@yahoo.co.uk> > *Sent:* Sat, 27 November, 2010 20:42:58 > *Subject:* Re: Converting Doc file to Lyx > > Jim, if you could help me by converting the attached file, I'd be more than > grateful! Tried here but didn't succeed.. FN > > Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 > > > > On 27 November 2010 20:33, Jim Oldfield <jim_...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > >> One way would be to open the file in Word and from there save it as an >> HTML >> file. Then in LyX import that HTML file. I doubt the results would be >> very >> good, but they would probably at least preserve the italics. >> >> Jim >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> > From: Frederick Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> >> > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >> > Sent: Sat, 27 November, 2010 13:53:20 >> > Subject: Converting Doc file to Lyx >> > >> > I know this might be asking for a bit much, but could someone help me >> > with converting a Doc file to Lyx? I know there are ways of doing >> > this, but don't have the right software tools on my comp (and can't >> > understand the complex instructions for installing the same). >> > >> > If you agree, I will email you the doc file, and really appreciate if >> > it could be converted to Lyx.In particular, I need to retain the >> > italicisation of the text. Thanks! FN >> > >> > Frederick Noronha :: +91-9822122436 :: +91-832-2409490 >> > >> >> >> >> > >
