"Jean-Pierre.Chretien" a écrit :
>
> >>From: Emanuele Gissi & Alessia Franceschi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>Subject: A new Agency needs LyX, perhaps.
> >>Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2000 17:33:13 +0200
> >>
> >>
> >>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.
> >> ??? = ???
As I am trying to finish my thesis and I have
to integrate word documents on it, this is
my philosophy (c; :
- Don't use the same tools for importing to Word and Exporting to Word
- Don't be foolish, a common file format (HTML, RTF etc.) acceptable for
both systems (tex & Word) does not exist
- For Importing from MS-Word, I used Word2tex, tex tweaking and ReLyX
and it worked for most
of it
- For Exporting to MS-Word, use either an rtf exporter (but beware of
the rtf version !!!) or
HTML or something else, it all depends on your word version (6, 95,
97, 2000 ?)
- But as it has been said above, for read-only PDF is really your
friend.
> Each time I give explanations about typesetting with LaTeX,
> I get the question: « What about MS Word ?».
> Clearly an effort (once more) is needed by the free software
> community to get a good translation from LaTeX to MS Word.
> This should not be underestimated, because the look and feel of LyX
> is not sufficient to turn MS Word users towards LyX. When LyX
> users will be able to produce Word documents, they will be free to use
> their favorite typesetter and able at the same time to fulfill
> the requirements of MS Word, « The Word Processor of the Last Century »
> as we will say after Dec. 31, 2000 :-)
I remember an old joke that said if we had a computer with
the computing power of a cray, smaller than a watch with
a 5 meters diameter video screen etc.
What would people ask first ?
-> Is it PC compatible, Windows run on it ?
I think the same applies for Ms-word and other word processors...
Cordialement
Emmanuel
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