On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Jürgen Spitzmüller <sp...@lyx.org> wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: >> Here, I think it's especially helpful to distinguish "round trip" >> conversion, which would be used during collaboration, from final export >> for publication. I take it that in the former case we just need to make >> sure not to lose bibliographic information. Only in the latter case do >> we need to be able to use or mimic biblatex, or whatever, to get the >> bibliographic information into some final form. > > Yes, maybe. But isn't the real and more serious problem, at least in the > humanities, that you are forced to submit papers and chapters in Word format, > notwithstanding if this is collaboration work or an individual's work? > > The possibility to export and re-import strikes me rather secondary compared > to that. But this is of course again just my own experience. >
I agree with Jürgen here. Moreover, after having spent a few hours looking at the details of mmd and pandoc formats yesterday night, I've become very skeptical about my previous suggestion to use conversion to either as an intermediate step that would allow both export to Word and round-trip conversions. So it's back to Richard's suggestions of keeping the two projects (export to word vs. roundtrip) separate. The issues I see, however are: - htlatex is in a state of suspended animation. I am not clear for how long if will be maintained, if at all. On the other hand, replicating htlatex's approach (compile with (xe)latex to a special dvi format than parse the dvi output) seems a massive undertaking. - for the roundtrip conversion: is it better to settle on an intermediate format (XML|pandoc|etc) or attempting a direct (and limited) translation? >> This sort of thing has been frequently requested just for XHTML: Parse >> the bbl file and use that to construct the bibliography. So perhaps the >> problem should be solved there first. > > I suppose things get significantly trickier if biblatex comes into play. > Parsing bbl files does not suffice there. > Agreed. 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
