On Jan 16, 2013, at 5:28 PM, Doug Laidlaw wrote: > 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. > Thanks for that tip. I checked it out. It's just a Python thing so it works fine on OS X, and LyX picked it up as advertised.
The output on my simple test case does look nice in a browser, but I get the same error opening with Word as I first described: "The XML file bla bla bla cannot be opened..." etc. I thought maybe my copy of Word was broken but it reads other HTML files fine--I'm guessing they don't have the XML stuff in them, however. I checked the HTML file that eLyXer made with the W3C page and got: "The uploaded document "-" was successfully checked as XHTML 1.0 Transitional." How does your method, LyX -> HTML -> epub, get me into Word? I don't think Word reads epub, does it? Also--eLyXer does not appear to use MathML so I don't think there is any hope of getting editable math into Word using this method. (But I haven't read all of the eLyXer docs.) Jerry
