On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:21 PM, Cyrille Artho <c.ar...@aist.go.jp> wrote: > I agree. A user who is interested in using LyX is also going to install > LibreOffice (if it's not already installed). Furthermore, we can't expect > student participants to pay hundreds of dollars just to be able to test the > converter. > > > Richard Heck wrote: >> >> On 02/24/2014 06:11 PM, stefano franchi wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Georg Baum >>> <georg.b...@post.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: >>>> >>>> Rainer M Krug wrote: >>>> >>>>> As far as I know, doc is a non documented binary format - so I would >>>>> definitely not go there. >>>> >>>> AFAIK there are many details known about .doc, but this is a dead >>>> format, >>>> and any round trip that uses it will be obsolete rather sooner than >>>> later. >>>> >>> >>> I agree completely. Let's avoid dead formats and focus on the choice >>> Word vs. ODF >> >> >> I would have thought it was in the spirit of the project to focus on ODF. >> Word reads and writes it, and anyone who's a Word-user can download and >> use >> Libre Office for free without much loss. >>
I agree, in principle and on practical grounds too (see the possibility to leverage tex4ht). However, it is true that the eventual users of the Lyx-->Doc converter (and of the roundtrip tool) will overwhelmingly be Word users, not LibreOffice users. Before we choose to go down the ODF path I would very much like to test whether the core features we are interested in---semantic marking, footnotes, math, changes, notes and possibly frames---can survive the ODF<-->Word round trip. Is anyone with Word willing to carry out the test? I can provide a test document in ODF format. S. -- __________________________________________________ Stefano Franchi Associate Research Professor Department of Hispanic Studies Ph: +1 (979) 845-2125 Texas A&M University Fax: +1 (979) 845-6421 College Station, Texas, USA stef...@tamu.edu http://stefano.cleinias.org
