On Thursday 28 November 2002 12:39 pm, Daniel Goldin wrote: > 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.
According to its documentation, Antiword converts Word docs to either plain text or postscript. In either cases, your styles are gone. In the case of a book, restoring the styles could be a several-week drudgery filled process. IMHO importing into OpenOffice and then cleaning up would be much easier. Steve -- Steve Litt Author: * Universal Troubleshooting Process courseware * Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist * Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful Technologist Webmaster * Troubleshooters.Com * http://www.troubleshooters.com (Legal Disclaimer) Follow these suggestions at your own risk.
