Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> writes: > 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
See my response to Daniel, because his ideas are similar to mine in this regard. > 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. As far as I remember, he was only working on an importer from docx - not an exporter - but I guess a student could pick up from there. Rainer > > Regards, > Liviu -- Rainer M. Krug, PhD (Conservation Ecology, SUN), MSc (Conservation Biology, UCT), Dipl. Phys. (Germany) Centre of Excellence for Invasion Biology Stellenbosch University South Africa Tel : +33 - (0)9 53 10 27 44 Cell: +33 - (0)6 85 62 59 98 Fax : +33 - (0)9 58 10 27 44 Fax (D): +49 - (0)3 21 21 25 22 44 email: rai...@krugs.de Skype: RMkrug
