On (11/27/02 22:51), Herbert Voss wrote: > Robin Turner schrieb: > > >wv works OK for most Word documents, but can choke on some MS > >encodings. It also, IMHO, tries to be too faithful to the physical > >format of a Word doc (which is usually ugly anyway). One rather > >roundabout solution with awkward Word documents is to load them into > >Star Office / OpenOffice and tidy them up (converting them to > >OpenOffice's native format then converting back to Word might get rid > >of some glitches). > > I have windows installed too and so it is no problem > to run from within Linux "wine /windows/.../winword.exe" and to convert > the text to rtf or html. >
The easiest way for me: antiword file.doc > file.txt Then import text file into lyx and do the rest by hand. I've found that wv often turns windows tables to gibberish. Antiword produces nice text and keeps the paragraph formatting. -- Daniel Goldin 323.225.1926 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
