Jerry wrote: > One can hope (right?) that since a commonality between LyX and docx is > math that this would be included on the feature set(s). On OS X, the new > versions of Word have a built-in math typesetting capability (and thus no > longer depends on MathType). Presumably this is allowed by the docx format > and presumably this is also an aspect of Windows Word. Autonumbering would > also be hoped for.
Of course this would be a nice feature, but I guess it could easily be a GSOC project on its own. The native equations in docx use a format called OMML (Office MathML). According to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/brian_jones/archive/2006/10/12/comparison-of- openxml-math-and-mathml.aspx?Redirected=true there exist a XSLT style sheet to convert OMML to MathML. So, a docx->LyX converter could either directly translate OMML to LaTeX, or use the XSLT and translate MathML to LaTeX (I write LaTeX since math equations in LyX are directly stored in LaTeX syntax). Maybe some MathML->LaTeX converters are already available, but a quick search did not turn up anything. Fortunately this way is much easier to implement than LaTeX->MathML! Georg
