On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 10:03:24 +0100 Alex Fernandez <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Rob Oakes <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm sympathetic to this point. I understand that having a way to go > > from one to the other is important. I've deliberately avoided > > creating an export to Word option, though, because it would > > essentially require that I recode large portions of LyX in Python. > > I'm resistant to doing that because it's a a lot of extra code to > > maintain. There are already two implementations of LyX document > > parsing libraries: eLyXer and that found in LyX itself. Adding a > > third and trying to keep it in some sort of synchronization would > > be a huge pain. I'm looking into using eLyXer for Word conversion > > from LyX, but that is lesser priority than making Word import work > > correctly. (At least at the moment.) If there is someone (maybe > > Alex or another eLyXer dev) who would be interest in collaborating > > and handling the export part, I'd be happy to coordinate with them > > so that we're able to round-trip. > > That would be great. Unfortunately eLyXer is pretty much a solo > project at the moment, and I don't have the time (or even the > inclination) to do the job. But it might be a great project to have > someone else started on the eLyXer codebase, and I would provide all > the assistance needed to learn their way around. Interested parties > are encouraged to contact me if you > feel that you might want to tackle this project, always with Rob's > coordination. > > Alex. Can one import HTML, with its styles, into MSWord or Libreoffice? If so, then it sounds to me like eLyXer has already accomplished this, without any added work from you, Alex. You've already done the hard part, and Rob's done the other end of the hard part, and it sounds to me like if there's an MSWord HTML import, it's just a matter of a small script that anybody can do, completely separate from yours and Rob's work. Kind of like my lyx2kindle, three quarters of which is just a front-end to eLyXer. Thanks SteveT SteveT
