Prannoy Pilligundla wrote: Hi Prannoy,
I use, praise (and sometimes curse) Tex4ht to convert lyx/latex files to odt and msword. Tex4ht is a powerful software but complex and fragile. In the many years, I have been using Tex4ht, I have found that : - The overloading of the latex macros that tex4ht does can create complex bugs. - The xtpipes program that zip the different xml files into an odt file is also very fragile like so many java programs. Your project is therefore very exciting. The strength of Tex4ht is that it reuses the latex/tex parser and your idea to create a lua macro that could plug into lualatex to spit some xml seems great. I see that there is already some code on the Net to do something like that. https://github.com/michal-h21/lua4ht On the other end, to make a convertor more robust on the long term, we should try to move away from tex4ht to more standard tools. Creating a program in Python with a library like ODFPY to handle the creation of the odf file will make it much more easier to hack, debug test and attract more people to help. The success of eLyXer shows that python is a good tool to create converters. If you can find a way to keep the best of tex4ht and bring it to more modern tools, your project will be a success. Charles https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/odfpy/home
