> Would any of you be willing to pay to have this feature in LyX ?
Yes, I would be willing to put in (a little) money.
Using rtf is not a good idea IMHO. It would be if you could house-train Word
users to export to it, but you can't :-(
There are already two projects along these lines:
- word2x translates Word 6.0 --> LaTeX, html, plaintext. Extending this to
Word 97 would be a good thing. I like word2x very much.
- MSwordview translates Word97 to plaintext I believe.
Then there is the older lhalw/Elser project upon which MSwordview builds.
I feel that all these people should get together and build a single
open-sourced "Word decrypter" plug-in producing marked-up output (i.e. generic
LaTeX/html/xml/...) to be plugged in into whatever word processing software
wants to use it.
Would it be too much to hope that Corel and Sun/Staroffice would be willing to
contribute? They have "the knowledge"... in that case, LGPL rather than GPL.
Martin
