On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 10:50 AM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: >> While we are talking about roundtrip - there is still the dreaded issue >> of MS Word (docx) roundtrip. >> >> There is again and again the discussion coming up of exporting to docx >> and importing docx, and (especially in the humanities as I gather from >> these discussions) many journals only accept doc / docx for submission. >> > > Absolutely! A minimum level of compatibility with MS Word (or openOffice) > would be a great boon to LyX. Actually, I think roundtripping, while > desirable is probably out of reach for even moderately complex documents. > What is really needed is a decent LyX --> doc export filter, and precisely > for the reasons Rainer mentioned: most publishers in the humanities accept > .doc only. Ideally, an export filter to doc should preserve semantically > relevant formatting (emphasis, footnotes, refs, cross-ref, and little else) > and discard everything else. > Maybe that's worth a GSoC project by itself? Anyways, I remember Rob has done some work on this: http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import http://www.oak-tree.us/2012/03/07/word2lyx01-2/
but the links are currently not responsive. Maybe a student could build on that. Regards, Liviu
