you may try to export your text as a html file. it can be read by some
versions of m$ Word, like 97 or 2000.
there are may programmes for that, some work as a Lyx plu-in
cheers
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lima-lopes
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On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 10:33:40 -0600
> From: Praedor Tempus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: From lyx to word
>
> I know of many of the conversion apps for latex (dvi2rtf, latex2rtf,
> latex2html, etc) but I have been unable to use any of them to successfully
> transfer a lyx document to word.
>
> I know about the loss of formatting and fancy fonts in going to rtf but what
> really threw me was that my citations and bibliography for the paper do not
> transfer. When I look at the dvi view of my document, I see all the proper
> citations and the reference page is also correct. Running dvi2rtf, however,
> leaves me with only the text of the body, no citations and no references. I
> don't get it. If the processed dvi view of the document contains the
> references and citations, why doesn't the rtf file that it proceeds from it
> with dvi2rtf? Using latex2rtf is the same way. Converting to html is worse,
> as it converts all my symbols and superscripts to image files that do not
> display properly.
>
> I need to transfer my lyx document to word. I would really like to keep the
> citations and reference page intact, knowing that I will need to reformat the
> paragraphs, fonts, etc, but at least not have to redo all the citations.
>
> Is there no decent intermediary format that will faithfully transfer a lyx
> document to word (by faithfully, again, I merely mean that the body text,
> citations, and reference page actually transfers)?
>
> Since there are some pretty decent word filters now available - from
> staroffice - now openoffice - and koffice, to name two, can't this filter be
> incorporated into lyx as an export filter? Or perhaps create a conversion
> app that will convert latex or dvi to word, keeping as much of the font types
> and citations/references as possible?
>
