On 20 Sep, Martin Vermeer wrote:
>> 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 :-(
OK, so the goal would be to import-export Word97 documents. A risk with
this is the format change that M$ will make in their Word2000 documents,
we will have to play catch up forever. RTF seems to be more stabilized
(true???).
>
> 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.
>
Yes, this would be a good idea, but this should be dealt presumably by
CoSource.com
> 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.
Yes, I could try and contact them. Before that maybe I can start the
project in CoSource.com, maybe they can handle that.
I also remember reading some news about Applix releasing as open source
their import-export filters, so they could also be interested.
You are right, a LGPL is more appropiate for this case.
Xavier
