On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Rainer M Krug <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 24/03/11 11:29, Guenter Milde wrote: >> On 2011-03-23, Steve Litt wrote: >>> On Wednesday 23 March 2011 09:54:29 you wrote: >> >>>> As for Word/OO<-->LyX interoperability, that seems a chimera. How can >>>> LyX ever be interoperable with Word, when even the LaTeX/LyX roundtrip >>>> will not get you back the document you started from? It seems to me >>>> that a more reasonable goal would be to have a Word-output function >>>> that strips all formatting except the semantically relevant items >>>> (emphasis, etc) and produce a clean Word file ready to be imported >>>> into a typesetting program or to be sent to Word-only people. >> >>> Even better, in addition to exporting emphasis and noun, have it export the >>> named but empty styles (environments and character styles) used in the doc, >>> so >>> the word doc has the styles and the text marked up with those styles. Then >>> all >>> that remains is to go in and modify those styles in MSWord or OOffice to >>> produce the desired look. After all, modifying a style in Word is five >>> minutes, not five hours. >> >>> This is a wonderful idea. Now if we can only go the other direction... >> >> I think we should have "semantic" import/export filters in addition to >> "visual" ones for all relevant document formats. > > I absolutely agree - this would make life so much easier: you can write > in LyX, export sematically to doc / odt and do the formating in word / > openoffice / libreoffice if the editor / conference only provides a > specific word template. > > Definitely a priority. > This might go down well as a GSoC project, as it seems useful and "simple" enough. What do others think? Liviu
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