On 14 May 2010 19:11, Rob Oakes <lyx-de...@oak-tree.us> wrote: > Dear LyX-Users, > > Everytime this particular topic comes up, I find myself exploring > different options for automatically importing MS Word into LyX. This > latest time round, I managed to come up with an automated system that > meets most of my needs. > > A description with links and instructions can be found at: > > http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import > > I mostly use this to import rough drafts that I receive from others, and > it does an admirable job of maintaining doc structure (including > images). Unfortunately, it doesn't play as nicely with tables. But > then, I tend to generate all of my tables in R anyway or in > Excel/OpenOffice and export as separate LaTeX files. (Trying to create > tables in LyX or LaTeX by hand is just painful.) > > If anyone else tries it, I'd be interested in your feedback and > thoughts. I've thought about expanding the base python library to also > support Word to DocBook conversions in an effort to see if that results > in a more faithful conversion. > > Cheers, > > Rob > > This is an improvement over my usual experience. I've tried a few documents - some work pretty much out of the box. Some need a little fiddling to get them to compile. One or two choke at the import stage -- however this only seems to happen for files names with spaces in them, and is fixed by changing filename
-- Stephen
