On May 1, 2013, at 8:28 PM, Scott Kostyshak wrote: > On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 10:59 PM, Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote: > >> A while back I spent a lot of time evaluating the various ways to convert >> LyX to .odt or .docx and found that none of them work well. > > You seemed more impressed a few months ago :) > "Mostly successful experiment: LyX -> LaTeX -> Word using pandoc" > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.general/76375 > > But I imagine that sometimes "mostly" successful is still a failure if > a few key features are missing. > > Note that Pandoc support in LyX seems like it's just waiting for > someone to make a patch: > http://www.lyx.org/trac/ticket/6042
Good catch, Scott. But with a little more investigation later, my perception of this route went down substantially. I commented in a thread, "Re: Word won't open simplest LyXHTML file," which mysteriously does not appear in the archive at the above site. So here is partial replay from 2013-01-22: "LyX -> LaTeX (plain) -> docx using pandoc: Word (Mac 2011) complains "This file is corrupt and cannot be opened." It then offers to repair the file. Results are: inline equation translated and editable but with two minor errors (it did not recognize lim as a function and set it in italics)--this shows that equation translation _can_ work; standalone equation not translated, TeX code is displayed between two $ signs, and equation number is lost; image caption is lost, but the spurious word "image" is displayed nearby; labels (section, equation) are set as ordinary text within their respective domains; cross-references are displayed as ordinary text but with nonexistent links; comments are displayed as normal text but in a separate paragraph, thus splitting the paragraph in which it is contained into two paragraphs; and indexed terms are lost. LyX -> LaTeX (plain) -> odt using pandoc: Opened with LibreOffice. The file is reported as corrupt and the program offers to repair it. Results--similar to above for Word except: inline equation is very poorly typeset and is not editable using the built-in equation editor; instead of the picture that was supposed to be a figure, a box is displayed which reads "Read error"; the word "image" is not displayed; clicking on the footnote cross reference moves the cursor to the crossreference;" Jerry > > Scott
