1.1.6-pre3 and wv
Nice to see Word import in 1.1.6-pre3 - I never use Word myself, but people insist on sending me files in .doc format. However, I'm having trouble getting it to work. With wv versions 0.5.26 and 0.5.44, lyx won't detect wv (i.e. after reconfiguring there is still no "Import - Word" option). With version 0.6.2, Import-Word gives me all the LaTeX commands' but the text is just digital garbage. Is there another version of wv I should be using, or is there something else I should have installed? Thanks, Robin
Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv
Robin, Go to http://www.word2tex.com/index.html and try their word > latex converter. The trial version will convert the text and formulas but not the tables and pictures... Remzi Seker - Original Message - From: "Robin Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 09, 2001 9:59 AM Subject: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv > Nice to see Word import in 1.1.6-pre3 - I never use Word myself, but > people insist on sending me files in .doc format. However, I'm having > trouble getting it to work. With wv versions 0.5.26 and 0.5.44, lyx > won't detect wv (i.e. after reconfiguring there is still no "Import - > Word" option). With version 0.6.2, Import-Word gives me all the LaTeX > commands' but the text is just digital garbage. Is there another > version of wv I should be using, or is there something else I should > have installed? > > Thanks, > > Robin
Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > Nice to see Word import in 1.1.6-pre3 - I never use Word myself, but > people insist on sending me files in .doc format. However, I'm having > trouble getting it to work. With wv versions 0.5.26 and 0.5.44, lyx > won't detect wv (i.e. after reconfiguring there is still no "Import - > Word" option). With version 0.6.2, Import-Word gives me all the LaTeX > commands' but the text is just digital garbage. Is there another > version of wv I should be using, or is there something else I should > have installed? What was the language of the document? wv supports only latin1 encoding (but it is possible to change this).
Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv
Dekel Tsur wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 05:59:08PM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > > Nice to see Word import in 1.1.6-pre3 - I never use Word myself, but > > people insist on sending me files in .doc format. However, I'm having > > trouble getting it to work. With wv versions 0.5.26 and 0.5.44, lyx > > won't detect wv (i.e. after reconfiguring there is still no "Import - > > Word" option). With version 0.6.2, Import-Word gives me all the LaTeX > > commands' but the text is just digital garbage. Is there another > > version of wv I should be using, or is there something else I should > > have installed? > > What was the language of the document? > wv supports only latin1 encoding (but it is possible to change this). It was in English. Here's an example of what got generated: \layout Standard [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [2000] [4500]E[4c00]L[5 300]S[2000] [3100]1[3100]1[3200]2[2000] [5600]V[6f00]o[6300]c[6100]a[6200]b[7500]u[6c00]l[6 100]a[7200]r[7900]y[2000] [5400]T[6500]e[7300]s[7400]t[2000] [5400]T[7700]w[6f00]o[2000] [2000] [2d00]-[2 000] [5300]S[7500]u[6d00]m[6d00]m[6500]e[7200]r[2000] [5300]S[6300]c[6800]h[6f00]o[6 f00]o[6c00]l[2000] [3200]2[3000]0[3000]0[3000]0[d00] \layout Standard Closer inspection revealed that I was not getting "digital garbage" as I'd said before - look carefully here and you see "ELS 112 Vocabulary Test Two, Summer School 2000" -- but why am I getting all the character codes in brackets as well? Robin
Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:43:28AM +0200, Robin Turner wrote:
> Dekel Tsur wrote:
> It was in English. Here's an example of what got generated:
> Closer inspection revealed that I was not getting "digital garbage" as
> I'd said before - look carefully here and you see "ELS 112 Vocabulary
> Test Two, Summer School 2000" -- but why am I getting all the character
> codes in brackets as well?
The [n] is for unicode characters which cannot be converted to latin1
(in your case, I think that these are spacing characters).
To get rid of those, edit the file text.c in the wv sources,
and uncomment line 1622 (the line
if (char16 >= 0x80) printf("[%x]", char16);
)
Also, you can send your complaints to the wv authors.
Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv
Dekel Tsur wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 11:43:28AM +0200, Robin Turner wrote:
> > Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > It was in English. Here's an example of what got generated:
>
> > Closer inspection revealed that I was not getting "digital garbage" as
> > I'd said before - look carefully here and you see "ELS 112 Vocabulary
> > Test Two, Summer School 2000" -- but why am I getting all the character
> > codes in brackets as well?
>
> The [n] is for unicode characters which cannot be converted to latin1
> (in your case, I think that these are spacing characters).
> To get rid of those, edit the file text.c in the wv sources,
> and uncomment line 1622 (the line
> if (char16 >= 0x80) printf("[%x]", char16);
> )
>
> Also, you can send your complaints to the wv authors.
I installed from RPMs. If I compile wv from source, Lyx doesn't detect
it.
Is it possible to use the old mswordview in Lyx (i.e. convert Word to
HTML, then HTML to LaTeX)?
Robin
Re: 1.1.6-pre3 and wv
On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 07:22:23PM +0200, Robin Turner wrote: > I installed from RPMs. If I compile wv from source, Lyx doesn't detect > it. In order to autodetect the wvCleanLatex program, it must be in your path. Did you did a make install after compiling it ? You can also add a Word->Latex converter manually using the preferences dialog. > Is it possible to use the old mswordview in Lyx (i.e. convert Word to > HTML, then HTML to LaTeX)? Yes. You just need to define a Word->html and html->latex converters in the preferences dialog (but you will probably need to install a html->latex converter).
