That's the funniest thing I've ever read, and it's the perfect thing to give
these bozos who insist on MS Word.
I'm pretty sure for big documents this could be automated with pdftk and
convert plus a program to generate an abiword file from the page pictures. The
abiword file can then be conver
Hi
I just found that idea on how to deal with latex / pdf to doc
conversion in read-only format. Quite an ingenius idea:
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retain te
On Sun, Jun 03, 2007, Miki Dovrat wrote:
>
> How can I convert my lyx document to microsoft word
Google is your friend here: the first hit for "convert latex to word" is:
http://www.tug.org/utilities/texconv/textopc.html
If you have a significant number of mathematical equations, I have fo
Miki Dovrat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> How can I convert my lyx document to microsoft word (or html, which word
> reads?, or openoffice, which can be exported to rtf, which word reads)?
>
> These converters seem to be broken on Windows (still). I have lyx 1.4.4
> with Miktex 2.5 which has htlatex. In the
Hi,
How can I convert my lyx document to microsoft word (or html, which word
reads?, or openoffice, which can be exported to rtf, which word reads)?
These converters seem to be broken on Windows (still). I have lyx 1.4.4 with
Miktex 2.5 which has htlatex. In the past I have succeeded in getting
yiwei cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi,
>
> Anyone know how to convert a LyX file with many math equations to a
> word file? Do I need to retype all those in-line math characters and
> equations? Thank you in advance!!
>
> bests,
> yiwei
>
Hi,
Try latex2rtf: http://latex2rtf.sour
Hi,
Anyone know how to convert a LyX file with many math equations to a
word file? Do I need to retype all those in-line math characters and
equations? Thank you in advance!!
bests,
yiwei
Georg Baum wrote:
Rainer M Krug wrote:
The automatic detection did not work - probably it is only checking when
installing LyX?
No. It checks when you either run LyX for the first time, or when you do a
Tools->Reconfigure. But it does only find programs in the path. If
latex2rtf is not in the
Nicolás schrieb:
> Has anyone tried to convert latex to OpenDocument format with tex4ht?
> And then convert it to Word with OpenOffice or with the "OpenOffice
> filter to Microsoft Word XML"?
>
> Nicolás
>
Sure, there's lots of traffic on this in the list archives. See also the
special "oolatex"
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:04:02PM +0200, K. Elo wrote:
> I wholly agree with Helge. Personally, I use LyX to write my academic
> texts (and most of my other text, too) and whenever I had to submit a
> text in M$ Word format, I do the following:
> 1) I export the document in LaTeX.
> 2) I run the
Rainer M Krug wrote:
> The automatic detection did not work - probably it is only checking when
> installing LyX?
No. It checks when you either run LyX for the first time, or when you do a
Tools->Reconfigure. But it does only find programs in the path. If
latex2rtf is not in the path then either
Georg Baum wrote:
Rainer M Krug wrote:
The resason that I don't see it is probably because I didn't have
latex2pdf installed...
you mean latex2rtf?
yes - sorry
I installed it now, reconfigured LyX, but I still can't see it.
I was wrong, it is not called RTF but Rich Text Format. Do yo
Rainer M Krug wrote:
> The resason that I don't see it is probably because I didn't have
> latex2pdf installed...
you mean latex2rtf?
> I installed it now, reconfigured LyX, but I still can't see it.
I was wrong, it is not called RTF but Rich Text Format. Do you see that?
> Do I have to add it
Georg Baum wrote:
Rainer M Krug wrote:
Just a suggestion - would it be possible to have this process included
in LyX as a menu item or a script file which is doing it automatically?
Obviously step 4 has to be done manually.
It is integrated (at least in 1.4.3). If you have latex2rtf installed
>>Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:51:02 +0100
>>From: Nicolás <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>CC: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
>>Subject: Re: lyx to word conversion
>>
>>Has anyone tried to convert latex to OpenDocument format with tex4ht?
>>And then convert it
Has anyone tried to convert latex to OpenDocument format with tex4ht?
And then convert it to Word with OpenOffice or with the "OpenOffice
filter to Microsoft Word XML"?
Nicolás
Rainer M Krug wrote:
> Just a suggestion - would it be possible to have this process included
> in LyX as a menu item or a script file which is doing it automatically?
> Obviously step 4 has to be done manually.
It is integrated (at least in 1.4.3). If you have latex2rtf installed you
will have a
K. Elo wrote:
Hi,
Helge Hafting wrote (Nov 30 2006 13:47):
And we know that they are _not_ going to print the word file
as-is in their publication anyway. Word isn't good enough,
so they always reformat with something else. They merely have
streamlined the conversion from word to whatever they
Hi,
Helge Hafting wrote (Nov 30 2006 13:47):
>
> And we know that they are _not_ going to print the word file
> as-is in their publication anyway. Word isn't good enough,
> so they always reformat with something else. They merely have
> streamlined the conversion from word to whatever they use.
>
Juergen Fenn wrote:
Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS
Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your
paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort
on converters.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 14:58:12 +0100
Georg Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Juergen Fenn wrote:
>
> > the same: If you know you are required to provide a DOC file for
> > submission to a journal then use Word and produce a DOC file of your
> > paper. Even OOo is second choice because it is not the
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 13:01, Juergen Fenn wrote:
> > Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >> I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS
> > >> Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your
Juergen Fenn wrote:
> the same: If you know you are required to provide a DOC file for
> submission to a journal then use Word and produce a DOC file of your
> paper. Even OOo is second choice because it is not the
> original.
This is again the widespread FUD that there are no compatibility probl
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 13:01, Juergen Fenn wrote:
> Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS
> >> Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your
> >> paper. The point is that the TeX community ha
Sven Schreiber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS
>> Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your
>> paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort
>> on converters.
> "That's a bold s
Bo Peng wrote:
In my case, PLoS genetics only accept MS Word submission and the
Scientific Publication department of our institution only accepts
manuscripts in Word format for proofread (so that they can use the
change tracking feature of word, although this feature is also
available in lyx).
I think there's hope that in the future people will rather require Open
Doc Format files instead of Word. Then it would be great if Lyx could
export ODF easily. Maybe the planned XML file format will help...?
Lars seems to be doing XML privately and I have no idea what he has in
mind. It is not
Juergen Fenn schrieb:
>
> I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS
> Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your
> paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort
> on converters.
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen.
>
"That's a bold
I don't think this is a good idea. If you are supposed to provide MS
Word format you should use MS Word or at least OOo for writing your
paper. The point is that the TeX community has spent too little effort
on converters.
First, I get used to my ways (lable/ref, bibtex/cite, hyperref,
external
"Bo Peng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In my case, PLoS genetics only accept MS Word submission and the
> Scientific Publication department of our institution only accepts
> manuscripts in Word format for proofread (so that they can use the
> change tracking feature of word, although this feature
Why should we go through all this conversion fuss anyway? Microsoft are
the ones who have to comply to the open format. If I want to share my
LyX-documents I just send them as pdf-files, anyone should be able to
open that: Acroreader is free...
In my case, PLoS genetics only accept MS Word submi
Charles de Miramon skrev:
Bo Peng wrote:
I also tried tex4ht. It produces a swx file and ooffice failed to open
it. The error message is 'Error loading document ... Read-Error:
Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at
2853,74 (row, col). I am using ooffice 1.1.5 a
Bo Peng wrote:
> I also tried tex4ht. It produces a swx file and ooffice failed to open
> it. The error message is 'Error loading document ... Read-Error:
> Format error discovered in the file in sub-document content.xml at
> 2853,74 (row, col). I am using ooffice 1.1.5 and
> tex4ht-1.0-0.2005_0
> Be warned that not all LaTeX commands are interpreted by latex2rtf.
That is true. I am trying to convert my lyx file to word right now
since our proofread guy only works with MS Word. I use latex2rtf and
get a document without reference, table and figures.
I also tried tex4ht. It produces a s
Richard Heck wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is still a PITA! Word is not a standard, but it is what most
people in my field use. Now that I have a set of tools that work very
well, and obviously, with the creative and bright people working on
latex and lyx, I always will have. The docume
Enrico Forestieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Be warned that not all LaTeX commands are interpreted by latex2rtf.
Above all, latex2rtf does not load any additional LaTeX packages which
means that even if you don't use any packages for the main text
converting your bibliography will fail if you
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I tried latex2rtf with partial success before my original post.
> Jean-Pierre Chretien responded (apparently off list) that the latest
> version worked correctly. It does and I had used it improperly. One must
> run latex at least once, then bibtex and finally lat
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I tried latex2rtf with partial success before my original post.
> Jean-Pierre Chretien responded (apparently off list) that the latest
> version worked correctly. It does and I had used it improperly. One must
> run latex at least once, then bibtex and finally latex2rtf (
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is still a PITA! Word is not a standard, but it is what most people
in my field use. Now that I have a set of tools that work very well, and
obviously, with the creative and bright people working on latex and lyx, I
always will have. The documentation may be a bit
Not so fast! IT does work.
I tried latex2rtf with partial success before my original post.
Jean-Pierre Chretien responded (apparently off list) that the latest
version worked correctly. It does and I had used it improperly. One must
run latex at least once, then bibtex and finally latex2rtf (or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The pretty-good solutions I think of require error-inviting fix-ups. The
> best I find is latex2rtf, and rtf import to openoffice, then cut and past
> the bibliography as text and hand fix. However, this leaves documentation
> as bibtex index terms. Is there a postscript
This was recently discussed and I thought (hoped) I would never have to do
it and never followed closely. I did search the lyx-users archive back to
early August '06 without luck. (Social Forces requires manuscripts only as
MS Word docs!)
The pretty-good solutions I think of require error-invi
> > Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:14:26 +0200
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin A. Hansen)
> > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> > Subject: converting lyx to word
> > ==
> >
> > hello people
> >
> >
> > deadline is today:
> >
> > i need to convert my article from lyx to word preserving the
> > references.
>
>
place.
> ==
> Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 14:14:26 +0200
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin A. Hansen)
> To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org
> Subject: converting lyx to word
> ==
>
> hello people
>
>
> deadline is today:
>
> i need to conver
hello people
deadline is today:
i need to convert my article from lyx to word preserving the references.
export->latex; running latex, bibtex, renaming bbl files, running latex2rtf
fucks up the references exchanging number refs with refkeys!
export->html fails too (cant figure out
Neal D. Becker wrote:
> Philip A. Viton wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> There's a correction on the tex4ht BugFixes page. The correct
>> command is (apparently)
>>
>> htlatex filename "xhtml,ooffice" "ooffice/! -cmozhtf" "-coo"
>>
>>
>
> I am testing this on Linux Fedora. It is doing a pretty good job,
Philip A. Viton wrote:
>
>
> There's a correction on the tex4ht BugFixes page. The correct command is
> (apparently)
>
> htlatex filename "xhtml,ooffice" "ooffice/! -cmozhtf" "-coo"
>
>
I am testing this on Linux Fedora. It is doing a pretty good job, except
for one thing. The graph I incl
Philip A. Viton wrote:
There's a correction on the tex4ht BugFixes page. The correct command is
(apparently)
htlatex filename "xhtml,ooffice" "ooffice/! -cmozhtf" "-coo"
Many thanks. This works better now, but not in all cases.
(It seems that the MiKTeX-TeX4ht installations is buggy.)
regards Uwe
There's a correction on the tex4ht BugFixes page. The correct command is
(apparently)
htlatex filename "xhtml,ooffice" "ooffice/! -cmozhtf" "-coo"
Philip A. Viton
City Planning, Ohio State University
275 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus OH 43210
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uwe Stöhr wrote:
> But I encountered a new problem: Using the corresponding htlatex call
> brings me an error
>
> --- warning --- Can't find/open file ` -coo.lg'
>
> while oolatex doesn't have this. So it seems that the commands are not
> identic in my installation. (I installed tex4ht via MiKTeX
Stefano Franchi wrote:
The conversion from Latex to OpenOffice took just one command:
htlatex filename "xhtml,ooffice" " -cmozhtf" " -coo"
(It took me a while to figure out the right command, because the
instructions on the webpage were a bit ambiguous. I talked with the
developer of TeX4ht and
our
system.
Best,
Stefano
On Oct 14, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
Stefano Franchi wrote:
Thanks so much to everyone who helped me figure out how to go from
LyX to Word. The key hint was to use htlatex to convert into
OpenOffice and then export from OpenOffice to Microsoft word. Works
beau
On Thu, 14 Oct 2004, Stefano Franchi wrote:
> I think the solution should be definitely posted in some prominent
> place, in a FAQ, or in the documentation somewhere. It is one of the
> most pressing needs for everyone in the humanities wanting to use LyX.
> I'll be more than willing to contribu
Stefano Franchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
| Thanks so much to everyone who helped me figure out how to go from LyX
| to Word. The key hint was to use htlatex to convert into OpenOffice
| and then export from OpenOffice to Microsoft word. Works beautifully
| and almost out of the box (aft
Thanks so much to everyone who helped me figure out how to go from LyX
to Word. The key hint was to use htlatex to convert into OpenOffice and
then export from OpenOffice to Microsoft word. Works beautifully and
almost out of the box (after you spend a couple of days installing all
the
"Philip A. Viton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
>
> I think that no matter what you choose, you'll have problems with
> equations, which will probably be converted to some kind of image, not
> Word's eq editor format.
>
> Your best bet might be to check out latex2rtf on
A couple of suggestions:
1. Try latex2rtf on ctan. I * think* this will give you images for your
equations, but it may have improved.
2. Following Herbert Voss's suggestion, try converting to HTML and then
importing. If there are few equations in your docuent, this is probably the
simplest app
I think that no matter what you choose, you'll have problems with
equations, which will probably be converted to some kind of image, not
Word's eq editor format.
Your best bet might be to check out latex2rtf on CTAN, and see if the
equation situation is any better than this. Otherwise, you mig
Hi,
thanks for your help. I solved the problem quite differently, which
still required a lot of "tuning" of the document afterwards. I had a
pdf-file of my paper and simply copied and pasted the text into Word.
The only problem I had to solve concerned the german Umlaute, but even
that worked
Katrin Pietzsch schrieb:
I thought about either converting the latex-file to html or to rtf. Any
suggestions on which works better? Or how to do it elegantly without too
much hassle?
if the document is not too complex, export it to html
and then import it with word.
Herbert
Hi,
I just learned that I have to convert my lyx-file to word today (which
I thought I need not to do), so i checked the archive, but found mainly
stuff about how to convert word to lyx. I'd give tex2word a shot, but
it won't run on an apple.
I thought about either converting the latex-file to
>>Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:33:40 -0600
>>From: "Praedor Tempus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: From lyx to word
>>
>>I know of many of the conversion apps for latex (dvi2rtf, latex2rtf,
>>latex2html, etc)
On úterý 01 květen 2001 5:47 you wrote:
> * Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-29
20:35 +0200:
> Sorry for this off-topic question, are there any tools to
> convert BibTeX-files into tab delimited text (and vice versa)?
> I'm about to put my BibTeX stuff into a postgresql database.
> (I'v
* Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-29 20:35 +0200:
> I know of many of the conversion apps for latex (dvi2rtf, latex2rtf,
> latex2html, etc) but I have been unable to use any of them to successfully
> transfer a lyx document to word.
I was unable to find dvi2rtf, could you please t
* Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-04-29 20:35 +0200:
> Praedor Tempus wrote:
> >
> > I know of many of the conversion apps for latex (dvi2rtf, latex2rtf,
> > latex2html, etc) but I have been unable to use any of them to successfully
> > transfer a lyx document to word.
>
> have a look at
* Christopher M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 2001-05-01 08:56 +0200:
> Is bibtex stuff included in a dvi?
Just take a look at the dvi with a text editor... It's in there,
provided you made the necessary [two] latex runs after bibtexing.
A. B. [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
"Christopher M." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem with a direct conversion, I'm gussing, is something like the
> following (non-technical). LaTeX is a markup language. That means that even
> when you get past LyX to LaTeX, your still doing the wysiwym thing, in a way.
> But Word is wysiw
Is bibtex stuff included in a dvi? Or does it merely make reference to other
files generated by bibtex? When you run latex on a file with bibtex references
in it, latex runs the bibtex processor for you-- but it still is a separate
process. bibtex then generates its own files. Does the dvi do any
The problem with a direct conversion, I'm gussing, is something like the
following (non-technical). LaTeX is a markup language. That means that even
when you get past LyX to LaTeX, your still doing the wysiwym thing, in a way.
But Word is wysiwyg.
Now, though I don't know how wysiwyg formatting
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:33:40AM -0600, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> with dvi2rtf? Using latex2rtf is the same way. Converting to html is worse,
> as it converts all my symbols and superscripts to image files that do not
> display properly.
Some tex->html converters (for example, tth) do not u
, 29 Apr 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:33:40 -0600
> From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: From lyx to word
>
> I know of many of the conversion apps for latex (dvi2rtf, latex2rtf,
> latex2html, etc) but I
Praedor Tempus wrote:
>
> I know of many of the conversion apps for latex (dvi2rtf, latex2rtf,
> latex2html, etc) but I have been unable to use any of them to successfully
> transfer a lyx document to word.
have a look at
http://www.kfa-juelich.de/isr/1/texconv/textopc.html
there are some macro
I know of many of the conversion apps for latex (dvi2rtf, latex2rtf,
latex2html, etc) but I have been unable to use any of them to successfully
transfer a lyx document to word.
I know about the loss of formatting and fancy fonts in going to rtf but what
really threw me was that my citations
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