Hi Ethan, The DocBook import/export actually seems to work pretty well. It is, unfortunately, a subset of the full docbook spec, however. I haven't hit the technical limitations, but I've seen a number of complaints on behalf of others.
For the open source writing book I am writing, I've been trying to find a robust way of exchanging documents and collecting edits from non-LaTeX/LyX users. The OpenOffice DocBook support appears to be the best option for simple text based documents. Apparently, everything goes to hell once Mathematics and images get added. I haven't done much first hand-experimentation, however. I eventually gave up trying to round trip documents to Microsoft Word. Getting LyX output into a format that can be read by Word is only half the battle. Trying to incorporate changes made by others is an even bigger struggle and it just isn't worth it. Cheers, Rob -----Original Message----- From: Ethan Metsger [mailto:emets...@obj-sys.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 8:45 AM To: Lyx Users Subject: OpenDocument export [was Re: too long] On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:19:54 -0500, Waluyo Adi Siswanto <was.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am using Ubuntu(Ubuntu 8.10 and LyX 1.6.5) and I can export to > OpenDocument easily (from File>Export>OpenDocument) and it creates > *,odt. When I open this file using OpenOffice and if I double click > the equations created by LyX it will be in OpenOffice equation, all > equations can be edited and continued in OpenOffice without any > problems. I can confirm this works out of the box on Ubuntu Karmic. Whether it works on more complicated documents, I don't know. I also note that OO.org has a LaTeX exporter, but regretfully cannot import LaTeX. It's supposed to support DocBook imports, but I haven't tried it. Best, Ethan (emets...@obj-sys.com)
