On 07/21/2012 12:50 PM, Jack Tanner wrote:
On Saturday, July 21, 2012 9:57:22 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
These look like bugs in the tex4ht package you're using to do the
export. tex4ht is known to be problematic on Windows. (It's a bit
flaky sometimes on other platforms, too.)
I've now spent about 12 hours trying to get tex4ht to work. I've tried
it in MiKTeX 2.9, in TexLive under Cygwin, and under CentOS.
My verdict is that tex4ht is awfully, awfully broken. For one, the
file tex4ht.env comes with at least two sets of hard-coded paths that
cannot possibly work on any system other than the developer's. Then
there's the piece of the xtpipes infrastructure that generates invalid
XML that it later tries to parse and fails...
I got better results with pandoc for conversion from LyX-exported TeX
to docx. It's fast and robust. However, pandoc has poor support for
input from TeX tables. It seems like if LyX could export either to
pandoc-enhanced markdown or to pandoc's native format, we'd have
pretty good support for conversion from LyX to a bunch of useful
formats. See http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
Have you talked to John (another philosopher!) about the LaTeX issues?
I'm sure he'd be interested in fixing them.
Richard
