On Thu, 22 Aug 2013 17:26:31 -0700 Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote:
> > On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:16 AM, Les Denham <lden...@hal-pc.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Aug 2013 18:13:23 -0700 > > Jerry <lancebo...@qwest.net> wrote: > > > >> > >> On Aug 18, 2013, at 6:59 PM, Les Denham <lden...@hal-pc.org> wrote: > >> > >>> My general approach to getting a LyX document into Word format is > >>> to us the LyXHTML export, import the exported file into > >>> LibreOffice, fix the inevitable problems, and save in DOCX format. > >> > >> How do you import the XHTML from LyXHTML into LibreOffice? When I > >> try it, I see only raw text; it is not rendered. I let the file > >> dialog display all files and assumed that the .xhtml file > >> extension would tell LO what to do but obviously this did not > >> happen. > >> > > Jerry, > > > > One of the inevitable problems. Try changing the .xhtml file > > extension to .html. I think you can also delve into the advanced > > settings of LibreOffice to tell it to treat .xhtml files as HTML. > > > > Les > > Les, thanks for that tip, but it didn't change anything--still raw > text, either with a document with a few equations (and thus MathML in > the XHTML file) or just a simple file containing only the word > "Hello". > > FWIW, when I do open the (x)html file, I get a dialog asking for > Character set (default = UTF-8), Default fonts (default = Times New > Roman), Language (default = English (US)) and Paragraph break > (default = LF). I accepted all the defaults. So it looks at that > point like something is about to happen, but then I see only raw > text. > > I also looked at Tools -> Options -> Load/Save -> HTML Compatibility > but didn't see anything relevant. > > Jerry Jerry, Sorry, I left out one step: before opening the file in LibreOffice, open in a text editor and delete the first line (the one that looks like this: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>). Save it and then import into LO. Les Les
