On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Robert van der Kamp wrote:
> Hi Alejandro! Good to hear from you.
Likewise! :)
> The company I work for didn't like it, because it didn't have
> import/export filters to MS Word (has this changed now?), so I looked
> for something else (but couldn't really find anything convincing. I'm
> back to LyX now. The combination LyX/LaTeX is great, if only I could
> find those filters for the company.
Well, AFAIK no, but recently I knew of something that could be useful.
There is a library called MSWordView
(http://www.gnu.org/~caolan/docs/MSWordView.html) that can import binary
office97 word files. The Abi guys (http//www.abisource.com) use it to
import M$ Word into AbiWord so I think it should not be too complex to
adapt it for our purposes.
As I see it, we have two ways:
* A word -> lyx converter as currently relyx does latex -> lyx.
* To use it as an importer plugin in the lyx 1.1.x branch, though
this will have to wait until things get more stable in this branch.
So, Robert, if you are really interested (I'm certanly not cause I don't
use M$) I suggest you to check out mswordview and see how reLyX works.
Greets,
Alejandro
