On 3/9/2012 7:04 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > Can one import HTML, with its styles, into MSWord or Libreoffice? If > so, then it sounds to me like eLyXer has already accomplished this, > without any added work from you, Alex. You've already done the hard > part, and Rob's done the other end of the hard part, and it sounds to > me like if there's an MSWord HTML import, it's just a matter of a > small script that anybody can do, completely separate from yours and > Rob's work. Kind of like my lyx2kindle, three quarters of which is > just a front-end to eLyXer.
I agree, I don't think that it needs to be very difficult. Writing a Word XML document is a pain, but it's not very hard. There's plenty of well documented examples for supporting a wide variety of features. What it lacks is someone who is willing to pick it up and run with it. I might have a student who would be interested, and I could help with portions. Is there anyone from the users list who might be interested in tackling it? I can provide support on the writing of doc and Alex on the parsing of LyX, it sounds like it's a matter of gluing pieces together. As a first pass, I'd recommend supporting paragraph and character styles, tables, images, and footnotes. Once you've got the basics started, it's pretty to add additional features as you go (or at least, that's what I've found). Cheers, Rob
