Hello, Rob has some work on word2lyx conversion (using .docx). [1] I remember he was mulling a round-trip conversion, but I guess he never got to implementing it. [1] http://www.oak-tree.us/2012/03/07/word2lyx01-2/
Regards, Liviu On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 5:17 AM, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2013, at 2:30 AM, Alex Fernandez wrote: > > Hi Jerry, > > I am the primary author of eLyXer. > > On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote: >> >> Thanks for that tip. I checked it out. It's just a Python thing so it >> works fine on OS X, and LyX picked it up as advertised. > > > Yes, I can confirm that OS X is fully supported. > >> >> The output on my simple test case does look nice in a browser, but I get >> the same error opening with Word as I first described: "The XML file bla bla >> bla cannot be opened..." etc. I thought maybe my copy of Word was broken but >> it reads other HTML files fine--I'm guessing they don't have the XML stuff >> in them, however. > > > Word does not like XHTML very much; you need to export to HTML 4, using the > --html option. > http://elyxer.nongnu.org/userguide.html#sub:HTML-Code > If you are doing the conversion inside LyX, instead of on the command line, > you have to add the --html in the conversion interface. > >> >> I checked the HTML file that eLyXer made with the W3C page and got: "The >> uploaded document "-" was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional." > > > Yes, eLyXer outputs pure XHTML. > >> >> Also--eLyXer does not appear to use MathML so I don't think there is any >> hope of getting editable math into Word using this method. (But I haven't >> read all of the eLyXer docs.) > > > eLyXer has several options for Math output: > http://elyxer.nongnu.org/userguide.html#sub:Math > Sadly, none of them is MathML, since at the time eLyXer was conceived it was > not very widely supported, and I have not found the time to add it. > > Hope this helps, > > Alex Fernández. > > Hi, Alex, > > Thanks for the comments and for the great tool. It does what it claims to > to, convert LyX to HTML, with lots of math options. The default conversion > looks great in a browser. > > I tried your --html suggestion and indeed Word opens it, and displays it > much as a browser does. Unfortunately, the HTML limitations are apparent; > this is probably as good as a HTML-only conversion can get. > > In my slow-witted way, I'm starting to understand why Word will not open the > various XML formats that I'm throwing at it. (I also played with TeXht today > (and the Mac GUI over it, SimpleTeXht. This method also makes XML in some > variations, and .odt.) So Word isn't broken—it's just not made to recognize > this particular kind of XML. (I want to use the word "schema" but don't > really know what I'm talking about.) So What is missing, as has been stated > in previous threads, is a converter from the XML that we're seeing to .docx, > it seems. > > Jerry -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
