Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rainer M Krug
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/12 19:27, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes > wrote: >> very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only >> docx support) would also be very helpful. >> > If .docx-only support simplifies your t

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread stefano franchi
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:27 PM, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: >> very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx >> support) would also be very helpful. >> > If .docx-only support simplifies your task and helps ensure that your > to

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:50 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > very nice. Hearing your opinions about doc support (versus only docx > support) would also be very helpful. > If .docx-only support simplifies your task and helps ensure that your tool would support a good deal of functionality, then I'm all for i

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
Thank you everyone for the comments so far. I really appreciate hearing from others as it helps me to build out a more detailed use-case. In addition to the earlier questions, I have one more: How important is support of .doc? I know that it is the standard upon which the publishing industry is

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/02/2012 11:37 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: I'm currently researching solutions for Math and I may have found one using MathML. We currently support MathML creation inside of LyX, do we have a way to import MathML? If so, how is that done? Is a native library or something that we handle with Pytho

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Rob To echo others, it's great that you'd like to work on this. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:59 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > What features would you consider essential? > > (Right now, styles based conversion looks pretty easy -- going from Heading > 1 in Word to Chapter, for example. But I'm not su

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Rob Oakes
On Feb 2, 2012, at 8:55 AM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 02/01/2012 03:11 PM, Xu Wang wrote: >> Hey Rob, that sounds like quite a nice project you have in mind! >> >> My two cents: it's not worth carrying it out if you can't get the math to >> import somewhat well. That seems to be the biggest prob

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-02 Thread Richard Heck
On 02/01/2012 03:11 PM, Xu Wang wrote: Hey Rob, that sounds like quite a nice project you have in mind! My two cents: it's not worth carrying it out if you can't get the math to import somewhat well. That seems to be the biggest problem with most ways of converting doc to lyx. I understand it'

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-01 Thread stefano franchi
Hi Rob, first: great project! I constantly struggle with converting file to and from MS Word. I now use the Word-->OOffice--> Latex--> Lyx Route, with the needed manual cleanup of Latex code and an additional cleanup of ERT code from LyX after LaTeX import. It is not fun. A project like yours woul

Re: Import into LyX

2012-02-01 Thread Xu Wang
Hey Rob, that sounds like quite a nice project you have in mind! My two cents: it's not worth carrying it out if you can't get the math to import somewhat well. That seems to be the biggest problem with most ways of converting doc to lyx. I understand it's very difficult, but I think it's also the