Hi Richard, Interesting project. Thanks for the link. I'll need to play with this and see if I can get it to work. I've been looking for a way of getting from MS Word to LyX and back, and this might help to automate some of it.
With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by happy and singing students that are applying for Google code fellowships and otherwise having hysterics over summer plans. While it is too late for LyX to submit proposals this year, I wonder if trying to get Summer of Code students to work on MS Word/LyX converters might make for a good project next year? LyX already imports/exports to nearly every other format under the sun (through the use of external tools, I know), it seems like an oversight to leave out the Word processor used by most people. If you really wanted to get fancy, you could try and convert tracked changes and comments from the LyX system into MS Word, or vice-versa. A more robust path for document interchange with Word users would go a *long* way to helping LyX adoption. I have several colleagues who would love to use it, but need a better way of working with MS Word users. I'm not sure what LyX's history with Google's Summer of Code is, but if there is any interest, I'd be happy to help with filing applications and such. I'm not sure that I'm qualified to be a mentor, but I could be a ruthlessly competent coordinator. Cheers, Rob Oakes
