Martin Vermeer wrote:
> But actually converting and importing a doc into LyX tends
> to be a nontrivial operation still.
My best luck has been converting to .txt and importing that.
This is particulary true with wp2latex or whatever it is called, because
it tries to do things to make the doc look the same, which is usually
not
what I want to happen. Even exporting from WP as .txt leaves bunches of
C-sp's
that I remove from the .lyx file with nedit.
> Perhaps I should have gone for LyX after all. She is cursing
> WP8 (which isn't exactly free of bugs and looks no prettier
> than LyX -- visual appearance is important for her), but then
> she was cursing Win3.11 and MSWord 6.0 also at the time. And I
> was her appointed problem attachment opener -- still am.
Likewise here.
> Another problem is that as an interpreter she needs tables (word
> lists) that can be sorted by one column. WP8 has that, LyX not.
> I have been thinking of a standalone tcl/tk thingie for this...
> but would it be hard to add to the LyX table code?
That would indeed be a nice feature for LyX to have. I suppose it will
eventually be a side benefit of the Qt and Gnome ports, which should
make it possible to interact with gnumeric or a Qt ss. Siag may also
provide what she needs, but I did not find the ss there very intuitive.
> I feel that it is just a case of severe inertia. Now that I have
> WP8 for her, I'm gonna stick with it. The devil you know...
That's like telling her to keep her crutches instead of buying new shoes
:)
> > Garst
> >
>
> Martin
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> :wq
