On Jan 23, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > 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.
Thank you for your reply. Alas, I do not currently have NeoOffice installed on my machine. I think my personal preference would be to run Lyx or even just rtf2latex2e from the terminal, so I could get the better error messages and maybe have a chance of finding out what is going wrong. Fixing the problems that I'm having with Lyx seems like a better long-time solution than merely working around them. (Especially if all that is wrong is that I need to alter a few configuration files, or reinstall a package or two.) But someone would need to do a little hand-holding for me, because, this is entirely out of my area of expertise. (Although, FWIW, I am good at following directions. I have successfully installed php and mysql and done a number of other command line tasks, using instructions found online.) I guess in lieu of that, I will be hunting down a copy of NeoOffice.
