Jerry wrote: > It has frequently been suggested on this list that, currently, the best > way to get a LyX file into Microsoft Word is to export from LyX to LyXHMTM > and then to open that XHTML file with Word. I have Word 2011 for OS X and > this fails because Word will not open the XHTML file, with the message > > > The XML file bla bla bla cannot be opened because there are problems with > the contents. Details > No error detail available > Location: 2 > > > This happens even for the simplest LyX file with only one sentence and no > fancy stuff--the entire contents of one test file is simply "Test > sentence". However, the exported XHTML files doe open OK in Firefox and > displays math in acceptable, if not perfect, form. (Firefox renders MathML > out of the box--why can't other browsers join the 20th century.) > > On the same "Test sentence" file exported via LyXHTML, I opened it in > TextMate, a very popular and extensible text editor on OS X, and applied > the "Validate syntax" command that is available therein, resulting in this > output: > > > xmllint output > error: colon are forbidden from PI names 'IS10744:arch' > <?IS10744:arch xhtml > ^ > Test sentence. > > > I am using LyX 2.0.5 for OS X. I _think_ I have been able to do this in > the past so I don't know why I can't do it now. > > I am preparing to start a major writing project and I want to understand > as much as I can about this--I'm pretty sure that there will be a huge > incentive later to have a usable if not perfect version of my LyX work > available in Word; this will include math. > > I know that LyX -> Word is a frequent topic on this list so I'm not > necessarily looking for a complete rehashing of the topic--only why > LyXHTML -> Word fails. > > Jerry
I used eLyxer (http://elyxer.nongnu.org/) to export from Linux to HTML then to epub, but it may not support the Mac. HTH Doug.
