Hi,
On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> 1. Converting from MS Word to Lyx. It looks like there is
> at least one project (wv toolkit) that will let me do this.
It works pretty well but will need some manual tuning sometimes. Some of
the most annoying limitation I found are:
- Lists of items often get split (eg, instead of aving one list of 5
elements we got five list of one element), this has toi be corrected
manually.
- Structured headers (chapters, etc) are rendered only by visual layout
(so you'll have to go through your documents to convert some text items
back to some headers stuff.
- Image converting is not always accurate.
I dont know if thoses problems could comes from Word itself, it's years
since I last edited an MSword doc...
> 2. Make the changes I want in Lyx, save, and then...
The problem I see is that you'll get a document full of visual tags and
strange stuff... If you can, maybe it's better to start a new doc in lyx
and copy/pastle only the text from your original doc.
> 3. Well, I'm not sure what to do here. Most HR staff don't
> understand what I do as a living, much less understand
> anything beyond the realm of M$ Office. I've even heard of
> HR people having trouble opening an HTML resume a friend of
> mine sent them. I still would like to try exporting to XML/HTML,
> if possible, but it would still really be great to be able
> to kick out the ol' Word format for the people who cling to
> it. Is this at all possible? What about filters for other
> formats like PDF?
You can export to HTML, but not (AFAIK) XML. on the other hand, you can
create sgml documents in DocBook (or LinuxDoc) formats directly from Lyx.
You can export Latex to PS or PDF, PDF is a good choice for Win user, I
think.
> Maybe I'm not on track at all here. What do most of you
> people do to maintain your resume? Are you using Lyx? Or
> is it not a good fit at all?
I mostly use pure LaTeX when wanting to edit LaTeX, except for short docs
(like a letter) or drafts (where I edit text, put pictures but not for
publishing). But ppl I know use it even to write a complete PhD thesis.
On the other hand, I heavily use Lyx for SGML editing.
Yannick
