Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-30 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Stefano, On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 10:18 PM, stefano franchi wrote: > In my, very recent, experience, there are several converters Lyx->Word, but > no *robust* one. > Problems I encountered yesterday trying to convert a relatively simple > 15-pages lyx  file that compiled perfectly to pdf into w

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-30 Thread stefano franchi
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Alex Fernandez wrote: > Hi Rob, > > There is already a registered converter for MS Word. It uses HTML > formatting, which Word can import without too much trouble. > Unfortunately eLyXer (using the --html option) is not used for this > task, even though IMHO it pro

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-30 Thread stefano franchi
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: > With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by happy and > singing students that are applying for Google code fellowships and > otherwise > having hysterics over summer plans. While it is too late for LyX to submit > proposal

Re: Importing doc documents

2010-03-30 Thread Alex Fernandez
Hi Rob, On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:12 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > LyX already imports/exports to nearly every other format under the sun > (through the use of external tools, I know), it seems like an oversight to > leave out the Word processor used by most people.  If you really wanted to > get fancy,

RE: Importing doc documents

2010-03-29 Thread Rob Oakes
Hi Richard, Interesting project. Thanks for the link. I'll need to play with this and see if I can get it to work. I've been looking for a way of getting from MS Word to LyX and back, and this might help to automate some of it. With that said, I had a thought. It seems that I surrounded by ha