On 08/18/2013 09:26 PM, Ken Springer wrote:
On 8/18/13 5:02 PM, Chris Menzel wrote:
On Aug 18, 2013 5:10 PM, "David L. Johnson" <d...@lehigh.edu
<mailto:d...@lehigh.edu>> wrote:
>...
> For my papers it is of course ideal. Math journals all accept
(prefer) LaTeX source, and they can change margins and other style
tweaks with their own style files --- so I don't have to worry about it.
Two of our best journals in philosophy -- journals that regularly
publish rather technical papers -- require final versions of accepted
papers be submitted in Word. Transcribing a fairly technical 30 page
paper I'd written in LyX into Word for one of these journals was
excruciating.
Just a question... With the prevalence of the .doc/.docx Word file
usage, have the folks that create LyX considered adding an
import/export function for Word files?
The perennial question. Part of the problem is that, in either
direction, it is not a 1-1 map. It might be possible to choose a way to
import Word files, losing some of the needless formatting, but the other
way would be a nightmare in terms of preserving any of the LyX/LaTeX
formats, or equations. And that is the key, being able to preserve
something beyond the plain text. That you can do, since both (well, LyX
does) allow export to more-or-less plain text.
Another issue is that the "Word file" format is a moving target, even
worse now with the .docx format that is a zip archive.
--
David L. Johnson
Department of Mathematics
Lehigh University
