On Friday 18 July 2008 16:55, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote: > > I had styles for everything -- almost no appearance was fine tuned. > > You would, wouldn't you! :-D > > > So heres what my plan, unless someone else has a better idea. > > > > First, I'll export to RTF. > > > > Now the rtf file will have lines that are somewhat recognizeable as > > markup. > > Would exporting to HTML+CSS help, assuming that the styles go into the > CSS-file? (I'm thinking that the markup is easier in HTML compared to RTF)
How would I export to HTML+CSS? Always assuming it preserves my styles, this would be excellent. > Or maybe to some other format that's easier to work with... XML? > Converting to OOXML? Or ODF? > > <snipped complicated looking plan> > > > If anyone has a better idea for converting a 300 page MS Word document to > > LyX, style for style and word for word, please let me know. > > Some thoughts/deas... > * Check many different styles there are in the book That's quite easy by converting to RTF and doing a little Vim stuff. > * Check how many things you still will have to do manually (tables, > images, etc) It would take days to do that. I'll do that post-conversion. > * Do a test case on a small subset of the book before you commit to > your plan Yeah, I've been doing that. Another benefit is seeing how RTF works in a small case. > > * Hire someone else to do the tedious work! No can do. I'd have to supervise it so much I might as well just do it myself. Thanks so much for these tips. SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US
