On 18/12/12 10:28, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > Le 18/12/12 10:14, Rainer M Krug a écrit : >>> Sounds like a great idea. One question: would having an external but >>> faithful XML Lyx file >>> allow XLS-translations to XML-based word-processing formats? That would >>> solve once and for >>> all (hopefully) the problem of the Lyx-->Word conversion that still plagues >>> those of us >>> working in the Humanities (At least, it still affects me). >> >> Not only Humanities - I am working in the field of Ecology, and nearly all >> co-authors use MS >> Word, and most Journals hide their option of submitting LaTeX somewhere. So >> this would be >> brilliant. > > Don't be lured by the fact that XML presents itself as the solution to all > problems. I do not > see how you could collaborate with co-authors using word, unless your > document is horribly > simple.
Obviously not lossless or that straight forward - but I guess much easier then it is now. (even Libre Office an Word do not play that nicely together - even if I use only docx, I get formating issues when I get the file back. But these are things I can handle. And actually, most documents are horribly simple, and how it looks in word is irrelevant (no painting of formats necessary), as long as the *structure* is kept. Even images / tables could be skipped in word, as long as a placeholder is put there (or an image). Cheers, Rainer > > Today, although LyX format has been designed to follow LaTeX concepts, > exchanging documents > with latex users is not that simple. IMO sharing with word is not really > going to work. > > What could maybe be possible is to export to word and from there repair the > file (or import > and repair by hand). > > JMarc >
