On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:39 AM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:23 AM, stefano franchi > <stefano.fran...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Richard Heck <rgh...@lyx.org> wrote: >>> On 02/27/2014 03:44 AM, Prannoy Pilligundla wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> I also had a look at pandoc and tex4ht but as they are converters from >>>> Latex,i feel we should only consider them as secondary options. >>> >>> >>> I believe pandoc is pretty modular. One would only need to add LyX to the >>> list of formats that it handles and then, like magic, we could convert the >>> LyX format to anything else that pandoc handles. It seems to me that this >>> would be a very good approach. >>> >> >> Well, pandoc handles LaTex already (although not very successfully in >> my tests. Management of citation, for instance leaves a lot to be >> desired), so all it's missing is a docx "reader" to make the >> back-conversion possible. >> >> That is, I understand pandoc to work this way: >> >> Reader module from format X produces ---> internal representation in >> pandoc format which is used by --> writer module to produce format Y >> >> So we would need to add a doc writer module and possibly a lyx reader module. >> I assume both would have to be written in Haskell (haven't really >> looked carefully into this). >> > > Correction after morning coffee: > > The needed modules would be: > > 1. a docx|odt reader module > 2. (possibly) a LyX reader module > > No writer module would be needed, as pandoc has an extensive collection > already
Early results with Pandoc conversions of the latex version of the test document I prepared to html, docx and odt are available here in the bitbucket repo I mentioned earlier in the thread. Results are quite poor, I am afraid. Math is completely garbled. Bib is missing (unsurprisingly). And these are just the biggest problems. Stefano -- __________________________________________________ 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
