Michelle, open the RTF in OpenOffice (or NeoOffice on the Mac :-)-O) into which you have installed the Writer2LateX extension. Then you export it to Latex, paying attention to the screen that comes up by way of using the Ultra-Clean export.
Then you run tex2lyx and have a look for evil red text, which you then replace in the TeX file and run tex2lyx again (with the -f option). For each chapter of my wife's Honors thesis the cycle took about 15 minutes, even with a few iteration, and it worked very well. el On 1/23/11 1:41 AM, Michelle Bottorff wrote: > > On Jan 22, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > >> My main suggestion, if you are able, would be to run LyX from a >> terminal, as you will then get much more detailed error messages. >> It is possible that there is some configuration problem with >> these programs, but I am not on Mac and so cannot say for sure. > > I have access to a terminal, but I would need instructions telling > me how to do whatever it is I'm supposed to be doing. > >> I'm not sure why you are converting to and from rtf, but if you >> just want to import some old documents of your own, you might >> also try running rtf2latex2e from a terminal and see how that >> goes. > > I do want to import some "old documents", yes. > > But rtf is the favored format for emailing manuscripts to people > for beta-reading amoung my writer friends. It would be nice to > have it available to me. > > > >
