On 24/09/2015 3:08 p.m., Joe wrote:
It would appear that on Sep 24, Andrew Parsloe did say:
Have you considered exporting to rich text format and opening the resulting
rtf document in LibreOffice? I'm on windows, but I've found the program
latex2rtf does a pretty good job of handling even quite complicated LyX
objects (like tables, simple equations, footnotes). For straightforward text
(section headings, paragraphs, emphasised text etc.) it could save you a *lot*
of effort.
Actually no, I hadn't considered that. Probably because I didn't know how.
And if I needed tables, footnotes etc... I'd be all over that like white on
rice. Might try it anyway. Though I doubt it would save me as much effort
as you think. Because the smashwords meatgrinder is very picky about how
things are formatted. And leaving the tables and stuff out of it, almost all
formatting needs to be defined in paragraph styles. Any direct formatting,
aside from toggling italics, boldface, and underlining, that isn't done
with a paragraph style will cause errors.
The particular point about exporting to rtf is that it spares you all
those one line paragraphs. A paragraph in LyX is a paragraph in rtf. It
isn't exported to a sequence of one-line paragraphs. I should have
emphasised that.
Andrew
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