>>Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 11:47:43 +0200 (CEST) >>Subject: Conversion question (LyX -> Word) >>From: "Walter H. van Holst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>Hello, I have written a thesis in LyX and usually used the pdf output >>option to make it usable for my coach. Faculty standards however >>require a electronic version in a single file that is readable by >>MS-Word. PDF is not readably by Word. So far I haven't found any free >>tools to convert my document to a MS-Word document. Does anyone here >>have a suggestion to end up with a single file that is readable by >>Word and still preserves the lay-out?
Up to my knowledge, there is no reasonable answer to this requirement, which may come either from sheer misunderstanding of electonic document management or from a concern to be able to modify your layout, which in fact is genrally worse in Word that in LyX/LaTeX. I had this problem recently with proceedings of a congress, but the editors were easily convinced that (good quality) PDF was OK. In fact the quality of the paper version was their first concern and they just wanted to able to some editing in case of problems. I think you should stick to your rights to file an non-editable electronic version of your work identical to the printed version, and hopefully hyperlinked, but you may try these if they don't accept the PDF version (even if as a bonus, you forward also the LyX template): - export to html as one doc, convert back to Word by opening the html document in Word; don't forget to Edit->Break the links for the images to be re-imported in the .doc (otherwise the document cannot be moved around) This is OK (up the the quality of importation in Word, styles are lost) but for formulas; - try ltx2rtf to get the formulas in Mathtype if needed, and mix it with the preceding result. The layout won't be the same, but just avoid to show the PDF layout :-) People knowing about openoffice may have a better answer here. Any recent procedure to get Word readable versions ? What about a manifest against requirements to provide Word-readable version of documents ? Seems to be growing recently. -- Jean-Pierre
