> I'm using LyX to write a manual that will eventually be sent to be
> professionally printed. However, I need to first convert it to a format
> the printer can understand.
A professional printer should understand PostScript. LyX (or rather
LaTeX and dvips) produces PostScript. Alternatively you could create PDF
either using ps2pdf or PDFLaTeX directly.
> What utils are available to convert LyX documents to RTF, SGML, HTML,
> Word, etc?
Everything that translates LaTeX to those formats. Note that most
translations are not one-to-one. I think it is a safe guess to assume that
Word will never be able to _edit_ everything that LaTeX creates. Of course
you could create bitmaps from the PostScript and include them in Word ---
but I doubt that is useful.
> Additionally, perhaps I misunderstand the relationship between LyX and
> latex.
You probably do ;-)
> There seem to be lyx2* conversion programs which are different
> than latex2* conversion programs. Is LyX not just a latex editor,
> effectively?
Not really.
The .lyx format is different from .tex (just open two corresponding files
in your favourite text editor and watch out for differences ;-)).
So you can't simply throw tex2* on a .lyx file and expect it to work.
You can, of course, convert the .lyx to a .tex file first using LyX itself
( lyx --export tex yourfile.lyx should create yourfile.tex )
Andre'
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