A new Agency needs LyX, perhaps.

[Emanuele Gissi & Alessia Franceschi]

Hi,

My wife and me have almost accomplished our respective PhD thesis with
LyX1.1.5fix1, Pybliographic and ImageMagick on Linux Mandrake 7.1.

In a months I am leaving university and beginning to work as manager of a
new local agency for energy saving.

My project is to start the right (and economic) way: an open-source
only organisation.  So, I plan to use Linux, StarOffice 6 (soon coming?) and
LyX, of course, for all the reporting activity.

I already know that I will be facing several problems and oppositions.
The worst of the problems, that I should solve before formal proposal, is the
following: our likely partners work on Win and MSOffice only.

I have got no problem for exporting read-only documents: LyX PDF-export works
very nice.   

The problem comes when sharing read-write docs, those documents that are
reviewed and modified by the partners, thus needing to be translated from LyX to
MSWord and viceversa, without loosing the overall structure. Of course tables,
equations and other strange objects could be translated into images
(à-la-latex2html) in the MSWord side, but they should be editable in LyX side.
Text and structure should be editable in both sides.

Yes, I know: the solution is to make partners switching to LyX ;-)
But at present this appears impossible.

So I ask lyx-users for ideas and suggestions...

This is the actual situation of my experiments:
        HTML = exported by Lyx, but not imported...
        TXT = it looses the structure!
        RTF = I tried latex2rtf. Not so bad, but it needs hacking and MSWord does not
        read the converted tables. I never succeded with rtf2latex back-conversion.
        ??? = ???

Thanks a lot for the invaluable work of developers and help from users.

Emanuele Gissi.
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