On 2010-03-29, Tim Wescott wrote: > rgheck wrote: >> On 03/27/2010 02:41 PM, Claudio Beccari wrote:
>>> those using LyX or direct LaTeX (pdflatex) often need to convert >>> sources in MS Word .doc format into .lyx 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. >> OpenOffice will also save in LaTeX format. ... > My version of OpenOffice -- 3.1, on Ubuntu 9.10, did not seem to have > this capability, either as a "save as" or "export to". The latex export is in a separate Debian package openoffice.org-writer2latex I expect the same to be true on Ubuntu. Günter
