From where can I download Word2Lyx?
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Ehud Kaplan, Ph.D.
Jules and Doris Stein/Research to Prevent Blindness/ Professor
*The laboratory of Visual& Computational Neuroscience*
Depts. of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Chemical& Structural Biology
The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
One Gustave Levy Place
New York, NY, 10029
On 3/27/2010 2:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote:
Dear all,
those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert
sources in MS Word .doc format into .lix format.
On Linux platforms there are at least AbiWord and Kword that can open
doc files and save them in various other formats, .tex included.
Unfortunately the LaTeX file thus obtained is pittyful.
>From the wiki page of LyX it is possible to download of a
Word2LyXMacro that works well for on Windows platformas, but I did not
succeed to make it work on a Mac with MSOffice2004. On Windows the
macro performs very well and the LyX code produced allows LyX to view
the file without problems and possibly to save it in .lyx format, of
course but also in a pretty good LaTeX format, which in general
requires just a few minor adjustments, for language, input encoding,
output font encoding, font usage (Latin Modern would be a better
default then EC if the pdflatex option is selected), and few other
small things.
Somewhere on the package description for the Debian/Ubuntu package the
wv software is suggested; apparently this software has so many
dependencies that even on a Ubuntu platform it's difficult to compile
and install it, even if the wv libraries are already installed.
I would kindly suggest to examine the possibility of integrating into
LyX the necessary code to open, read, edit a .doc file on any LyX
implementation (Linux, Mac, Windows), so as to be able to save it in
.lyx format. Any user can reopen the .lyx file and do with it anything
LyX is capable of.
Thanks for your attention
Claudio Beccari
PS, as a member of the Italian TeX Users Group (GuIT) I edited (in
Italian) a Guide for the usage of LaTeX as a typesetting tool; see the
GuIT web site http://www.guit.sssup.it; I wrote a specific paragraph
on LyX; I would be pleased if I could add the information that LyX is
the /*only* instrument for converting, editing and typesetting/ a
source document originally in doc format. ;-) CB
