>>Subject: Scientific Word files >>From: Arthur Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org >>Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:52:22 -0700 >> >>I'm a computer consultant trying to promote Linux usage to some college >>level math professors. Many of them use Scientific Word in Windows XP. >>Since they already have large volumes of Scientific Word files that they >>don't want to have to recreate in another application for Linux, it >>seems appropriate for LyX to develop an "import" feature in order to >>gain their support. They already like Linux' stability. But need this >>one enhancement to provide sufficient motivation for the switch.
I've one experience of retrieval of SW to lyx. Exporting to standard latex from SW and converting with tex2lyx did a pretty good job on 3 chapters of a technical report full of math and a few figures: almost no ERT at all. So import function is provided by tex2lyx (available since 1.4, may be used on 1.3.7). tex2lyx is really a great achievement of the developers, thanks to them. If it's possible to export to standard from the command line, importing to LyX from SW just needs a wrapper and edition of the format/converter section of LyX. HTH -- Jean-Pierre
