On Jan 18, 2013, at 1:44 AM, Rainer M Krug wrote: > On 18/01/13 09:10, Rainer M Krug wrote: >> On 18/01/13 05:17, Jerry wrote: >>> >>> On Jan 17, 2013, at 2:30 AM, Alex Fernandez wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Jerry, >>>> >>>> I am the primary author of eLyXer. >>>> >>>> On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:49 AM, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net >>>> <mailto:lancebo...@qwest.net>> wrote: >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, I can confirm that OS X is fully supported. >>>> >>>> >>>> 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. >>>> >>>> >>>> Word does not like XHTML very much; you need to export to HTML 4, using >>>> the --html option. >>>> http://elyxer.nongnu.org/userguide.html#sub:HTML-Code If you are doing the >>>> conversion >>>> inside LyX, instead of on the command line, you have to add the --html in >>>> the conversion >>>> interface. >>>> >>>> >>>> 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." >>>> >>>> >>>> Yes, eLyXer outputs pure XHTML. >>>> >>>> >>>> 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.) >>>> >>>> >>>> eLyXer has several options for Math output: >>>> http://elyxer.nongnu.org/userguide.html#sub:Math Sadly, none of them is >>>> MathML, since at >>>> the time eLyXer was conceived it was not very widely supported, and I have >>>> not found the >>>> time to add it. >>>> >>>> Hope this helps, >>>> >>>> Alex Fernández. >>>> >>> Hi, Alex, >>> >>> Thanks for the comments and for the great tool. It does what it claims to >>> to, convert LyX to >>> HTML, with lots of math options. The default conversion looks great in a >>> browser. >>> >>> I tried your --html suggestion and indeed Word opens it, and displays it >>> much as a browser >>> does. Unfortunately, the HTML limitations are apparent; this is probably as >>> good as a >>> HTML-only conversion can get. >>> >>> In my slow-witted way, I'm starting to understand why Word will not open >>> the various XML >>> formats that I'm throwing at it. (I also played with TeXht today (and the >>> Mac GUI over it, >>> SimpleTeXht. This method also makes XML in some variations, and .odt.) So >>> Word isn't >>> broken—it's just not made to recognize this particular kind of XML. (I want >>> to use the word >>> "schema" but don't really know what I'm talking about.) So What is missing, >>> as has been >>> stated in previous threads, is a converter from the XML that we're seeing >>> to .docx, it >>> seems. >> >> check pandoc - I am using pandoc to convert xhtml to docx and odt - works >> perfect for me. I >> just > > Ups - should have been: > ### > I just added the following converter: > > \converter "xhtml" "msdocx" "pandoc -o $$o $$i" "" > \converter "xhtml" "odt lo" "pandoc -o $$o $$i" "" > ###
Hi Ranier, I added these two lines to my preferences file and now I see to additional items in the Export list, but I don't know how to use them. "Converter" implies feeding them xhtml files but all I can see to do is to select them in the Export list which merely creates e.g. a .msdocx file, whatever that is. Also, I played with pandoc a while back and its conversion of a very simple LyX file to Word was not perfect. I went LyX -> LaTeX -> docx. I did not investigate setting options very much. I recall that equations made the trip and were editable in Word 2011 (Mac) built-in equation editor, but equation numbers were lost. Today's effort, also on a simple but different document, LyX -> LaTeX -> docx, one equation was not typeset (only the markup appeared), a .eps file was not found even though it was present, and section labels were translated as literal text. Converting to .odt was worse, and at least once caused it to crash when it was attempting to repair what it thought was a damaged converted file. (But what _doesn't_ cause LibreOffice to crash?) Jerry > >> >> \converter "xhtml" "msdocx" "pandoc -o $$o $$i" "" \converter "xhtml" "odt >> lo" "pandoc -o $$o >> $$i" ""added the following converter: >> >> You have to play with the LyX xhtml or the eLyXer xhtml - I used LyXHTRML >> because it workded >> better in my case. >> >> I really think that pandoc should be detected automatically by LyX (when >> doing reconfigure) >> and added as it provides very usable conversions. >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Rainer >> >>> >>> Jerry >> >> > >
