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 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
> *To:* Jim Oldfield
> *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 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
>> > 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
>> >
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