I had tried to convert from a Lyx document (a Ph.D. thesis, ~140 pages)
to LibreOffice (File/Export/HTML). Much of it worked, but there were
many problems:
1. Equation numbers moved from right to left
2. Figures were totally distorted (size scaled up),
3. Some equations and algorithms were mangled
4. Several sections appeared centered instead of being left justified
as they were originally.
Using File/Export/LYXHTML produced similar results, although the
equation numbers were not mangled.
In short, such conversions do a lot, but they also leave a lot for
manual fixing. I suspect that if such a path were available, many more
people would use Lyx.
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Jules & Doris Stein Research to Prevent Blindness Professor
Director, The laboratory of Visual & Computational Neuroscience
Director, Center for Excellence in Computational & Systems Neuroscience
The Friedman Brain Institute
Departments of Neuroscience, Ophthalmology, Structural & Chemical Biology,
The Ichan School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
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On 04/29/2013 08:52 AM, Ray Rashif wrote:
On 29 April 2013 07:02, Sotiris Hasapis <shasa...@gmail.com> wrote:
I ' m trying to convert lyx to odt file using the methods described here:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tools/LyX2OpenOffice
but nothing seems to work. In fact when taking the convert option :
Latex(plain) to openoffice nothing happens and responds : "Error while
exporting format: odtFile 'C:/Documents and Settings/Owner/Local
Settings/Temp/lyx_tmpdir.Hp4792/lyx_tmpbuf3/Some_aspects_of_group-based_cryptograhpy.tex'
was not closed properly."
Any help please?
I'm using windows xp, lyx 2.0.
Thank you.
Sotiris.
From experience this has never proven useful. Interoperability is an
issue here with LyX and other word processors. Even if one conversion
succeeds (to either a .doc, .docx, .odt or .rtf), you'd likely need to
do some clean-up here and there.
A fine compromise I have found is to use elyxer¹ as an intermediary
tool. Its HTML output is beautiful, and it works with complex
parent-child lyx documents including figures. You could also take a
look at pandoc (via LaTeX).²
¹ http://elyxer.nongnu.org/
² http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/
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