> My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well
> with "lots of math equations". But over the years, Word has handled math
> in a bunch of different ways, so I'd recommend getting an evaluation version
> first, and making sure it works for your particular word docum
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012, Wilfried wrote:
>
> Even at least one publisher of
> scientific journals (I don't remember who) requests authors NOT to use
> the new Word 2007 - 2010 equation editor but the old equation editor or
> MathType.
This is common in my field (chemistry): scientific journals ask f
Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
> You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. I
> use word2tex from Chikrii Software (it is a commercial soft, with an
> interesting education price), it allows me to save in latex from Word. You
> can customize what you want to include in the
You should be able to install the extension writer2latex that normally gives
this filter for the save dialog.
--
Murat Yildizoglu
yi...@u-bordeaux4.fr
Le 9 janv. 2012 à 20:48, Csikos Bela a écrit :
> Richard Heck írta:
>>> On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote:>
>>> Hi,>
>>>
>>> I a
Richard Heck írta:
>>On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote:>
>> Hi,>
>>
>> I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word,
>> >>containing>
>> lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there
>> >>any way to do it? I see that this issue was disc
Thanks Richard for the correction,
I have mixed these two-way packages... I was thinking about the
writer2latex filter that allows us to save in Latex format (I use it with
NeoOffice, under OSX).
2012/1/9 Richard Heck
> On 01/09/2012 08:06 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
>
>> You could check rtftola
On 01/09/2012 08:06 AM, Murat Yildizoglu wrote:
You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too.
oolatex goes the other way. But Libre Office (the successor to Open
Office) can export a file as LaTeX.
Richard
On 01/09/2012 07:11 AM, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote:
Hi,
I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing
lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there any
way to do it? I see that this issue was discussed in the past in this forum,
and the sug
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012, Leslaw Bieniasz wrote:
>
> I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing
> lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX.
My experience has been that word2tex is the only program that will work well
with "lots of math equation
You could check rtftolatex, and openoffice (oolatex) based solutions too. I
use word2tex from Chikrii Software (it is a commercial soft, with an
interesting education price), it allows me to save in latex from Word. You
can customize what you want to include in the translation (I keep only the
esse
Hi,
I am new to LaTeX and LyX. I have a document written in MS Word, containing
lots of math equations plus text, and I want to copy it into LyX. Is there any
way to do it? I see that this issue was discussed in the past in this forum,
and the suggestion was to write the doc file in the html fo
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009, Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
> So, it seems the only solution is word2tex -- it appears to
> do the conversion better than GrindEQ. But it is hard
> to judge from the trial version, and the real version is
> quite expensive (and risky, since it seems support is
> non-existent).
Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
Richard Heck writes:
There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if
it runs on Windows. See here:
http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux.
I looked vwLatex. They refer to AbiWord,
Richard Heck writes:
> There's also the free wvLatex program that you can try. I don't know if
> it runs on Windows. See here:
> http://wvware.sourceforge.net/
> But if it doesn't, that's a good reason to dual boot Linux.
I looked vwLatex. They refer to AbiWord,
But I couldn't make AbiWord
Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
> I tried to install open office (neo office). It does convert to LaTeX.
> But the issue is that it seems the philosophy in the OO converter is to
> make the typeset
> LaTeX document look like the OO document, rather than conveying the
> meaning/contents
> of the document
Richard Heck writes:
> >
> OpenOffice will export LaTeX. You should be able to load your Word docs
> there, and then export. Might be no worse. You WILL have to do hand
> editing, one way or the other. There's just no way around it.
I tried to install open office (neo office). It does conve
Anders Host-Madsen wrote:
LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to
convert my old MS Word documents --
with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to
LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise
about this? I found two commercial packages for conversion
LyX is really a great way to write math. Therefore I would like to
convert my old MS Word documents --
with a lot of equation in Equation Editor -- to
LyX (these are documents I continually revise). Any advise
about this? I found two commercial packages for conversion
to LaTeX: Grind EQ and Wo
Michael Wojcik wrote:
I don't expect the
switch to XML to cause me any problems, and to be honest I'm a bit
puzzled by all the worrying.
/me too :-)
Abdel.
Steve Litt wrote:
Trouble is, replacing \begin..\end with <>... is a hack. LyX developers
have defined LyX native format as \begin always is the first character on a
line. There's no such requirement in XML, and if we require it, that's a
hack. If we don't require it, LyX-XML parsing becomes
Manveru wrote:
Have you ever merge XML? I tried - it is horrible work.
It depends entirely on how the XML document is formatted. There's
nothing that prevents XML with sensible line breaks, for example.
I keep lots of XHTML documents in CVS. They're well-formatted, so
merging works just fin
John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To the discussion about data format preference:
I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data
formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost
nobody i
G. Milde wrote:
On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote:
On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
To the discussion about data format preference:
... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work.
I don't see
On 28.07.08, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > To the discussion about data format preference:
> > >
> > > ... Have you ever merged XML? I tried - it is horrible work.
> >
> > I
On Monday 28 July 2008 01:10, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > To the discussion about data format preference:
> >
> > I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data
> > formats. And this discussion reminds
On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Manveru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To the discussion about data format preference:
>
> I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data
> formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost
> nobody is remeber about. How
Hi all,
A couple days ago it took the entire day to change all the tables from markers
to real tables. It was a tough job.
Today I put in the 10 images into the book. What made it hard was that the old
images were object embbedded Micrografx Windows Draw images. MGX Windows Draw
was a wonderfu
To the discussion about data format preference:
I am reading all your comments about XML, YAML and other suggested data
formats. And this discussion reminds me something about XML what almost
nobody is remeber about. How many LyX user are working in large team
projects? How often they have to merg
> On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it.
> > my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will
> > happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk.
> >
> > or you have so
On Thursday 24 July 2008 13:07:19 Pavel Sanda wrote:
> frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it.
> my feeling is that the xml-branch commit activity pefectly shows what will
> happen after the worst bugs will be repaired in xml merged trunk.
>
> or you have some particula
I understand DTD simplicity... but it is no longer fresh these days. Schema
allows better understanding and can be processed by XSLT.
2008/7/23 John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 08:04:59 am Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote:
> > > Steve Litt wro
> what I claim is that we need better
> script tools to handle lyx documents. Those tools should be stable across lyx
> versions and should not depend of any particular file format.
frankly - these are nice dreams, but there is not manpower to do it.
my feeling is that the xml-branch commit acti
On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
As a sed/awk/perl/ruby parser, I appreciate that very much.
The more I think about it, the more I think I should make the XML->YAML
and YAML->XML converters. That way, if future generations of LyX project
programmers forget why it's important to space th
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 19:24:16 Pavel Sanda wrote:
> this depends on what you master. i'm used on the bunch of small unix
> utilities so i gave that sed example. if you know python you will do in
> python. my point was not propose the best tools but to groan and moan about
> xml :)
FWIW this ch
Steve Litt wrote:
At first I'll do them in Ruby because Ruby has all that stuff built in and
easy to do. Later, depending on performance and the percent of people who
have Ruby installed, I can convert them to C. There's a C implementation of
the same YAML parser/emitter that Ruby uses -- Syck.
José Matos wrote:
That is also the reason why lyx2lyx is nowadays mostly a python library
(LyX.py) and the script lyx2lyx is just a wrapper around the library.
And let me add that anyone who wants to process LyX files on a regular
basis using external scripts would be well served to learn t
Steve Litt wrote:
Perhaps our best hope of continuing tweakability of native LyX is to create
1.5.x to XML and XML to 1.5.x converters. Then all the parsing/tweaking can
continue to be done in the 1.5.x format.
As always, LyX will have such converters, so old formats can be
imported/export
Steve Litt wrote:
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 07:00, José Matos wrote:
XML will not change the current status.
grep '
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 10:33:16AM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 07:00, José Matos wrote:
>
> > XML will not change the current status.
> >
> > grep '
> The next question is why do we need to manipulate lyx files with awk and
> friends? Is not there something that can should be done by lyx?
search and replace is one of the weak lyx parts and even if we get Tommaso
one day to put his stuff in there are so many place where its of no help.
just lo
> Perhaps our best hope of continuing tweakability of native LyX is to create
> 1.5.x to XML and XML to 1.5.x converters. Then all the parsing/tweaking can
> continue to be done in the 1.5.x format.
as have written others 1.6 is still ok. for lyx files assembly you can still
make what you want i
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 11:05, José Matos wrote:
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:33:16 Steve Litt wrote:
> > The trouble is, XML tags can be anywhere -- spacing and linefeeds are
> > immaterial. That means you can no longer parse based on position, such
> > as:
> >
> > /^begin_layout/
> >
> > beca
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 11:21, José Matos wrote:
> > There may be things wrong with awking, seding and perling data into
> > submission, but the age of these tools is not one of them.
>
> If you add there the coreutils, like tail, cut, paste, merge and so on we
> can do things that spreadsheet p
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 14:49:12 Manveru wrote:
> Guys,
>
> Have you even looked at TinyXML?
Thanks for the link. :-)
--
José Abílio
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:58:56 Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi Pavel,
>
> Perhaps our best hope of continuing tweakability of native LyX is to create
> 1.5.x to XML and XML to 1.5.x converters. Then all the parsing/tweaking can
> continue to be done in the 1.5.x format.
I will advise against such pract
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:20:59 Steve Litt wrote:
> When the discussion reverts to "your thingamabob is from another
> decade/century so it must not be good by today's standards", you know that
> thingamabob is pretty darn good, or else there would have been a more
> powerful argument against it
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 15:33:16 Steve Litt wrote:
> The trouble is, XML tags can be anywhere -- spacing and linefeeds are
> immaterial. That means you can no longer parse based on position, such as:
>
> /^begin_layout/
>
> because technically the whole XML file could be in a single line. Or a
>
Steve Litt wrote:
Perhaps our best hope of continuing tweakability of native LyX is to create
1.5.x to XML and XML to 1.5.x converters. Then all the parsing/tweaking can
continue to be done in the 1.5.x format.
I'm presuming that the LyX developers will create the 1.5.x to XML converter
so users
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 19:24, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > Moreover, if you're editing by hand, you can use
> > something that recognizes XML.
>
> of course it will work, but it will take x-times more time.
> quite difference to write sed one-liner or start doing some
> xslt templ
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 07:00, José Matos wrote:
> XML will not change the current status.
>
> grep '
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 18:21, José Matos wrote:
> Clearly you did not had to deal with the lyx file format like I did. :-)
> If your idea of a parser is a set of regexp's that is so 80's. ;-)
[clip]
> It is funny to see all this nostalgia around something that is/was a
> nightmare. If the syntax
Guys,
Have you even looked at TinyXML?
I have a project once where we use XML as a message passing protocol and we
were using XSLT as C++ code generator for classes handling XML and
converting them to data structures handling all data we need. This freed us
from portability problems (Litte Endian
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 12:19:16 Pavel Sanda wrote:
> i've done incorrect file, it's my fault if lyx crashes. i take my
> responsibility, no problem.
> trial method is the fastest if you want something quickly.
If LyX crashes that is a bug. LyX should not ever crash, it can refused to
load a fi
> On Wednesday 23 July 2008 00:19:09 Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > while you are right that xml could be better technology for internal
> > lyx parsing (and i can understand your viewpoint as lyx2lyx fan:)
> > this was not my mail about.
> >
> > > It is funny to see all this nostalgia around something tha
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 00:19:09 Pavel Sanda wrote:
> by 'outside' i mean tweakings which i regularly do and watching users list
> power users do that too _and_ are happy about the current simplicity of
> format.
>
> tweaks like assembling of the whole file for various datasets, global
> changes
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 19:24, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > Pavel Sanda wrote:
> > Moreover, if you're editing by hand, you can use
> > something that recognizes XML.
>
> of course it will work, but it will take x-times more time.
> quite difference to write sed one-liner or start doing some
> xslt templ
> Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Moreover, if you're editing by hand, you can use
> something that recognizes XML.
of course it will work, but it will take x-times more time.
quite difference to write sed one-liner or start doing some
xslt templating.
pavel
> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 22:54:14 Pavel Sanda wrote:
> >
> > now you are joking right? :) i just see all the bugs just because '>' is
> > redirection. and imho manually generate \begin_layout Standard is more
> > simpler
> > then typing .
>
> You are welcome to reimplement lyx in shell, good luck
On Wednesday 23 July 2008 08:04:59 am Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote:
> > Steve Litt wrote:
> > > I don't know how it will be after LyX goes XML, but right now at 1.5.3,
> > > converting my LyX code to something else by parsing the LyX native code
> > > would be tri
José Matos wrote:
now imagine those regexps where you need to escape all those \"
in conclusion xml will be pain for people trying to use .lyx files
directly with scripts etc.
Clearly you did not had to deal with the lyx file format like I did. :-)
If your idea of a parser is a set of re
Pavel Sanda wrote:
Steve Litt wrote:
this.
Just as easy to parse, I hope. Maybe even easier.
now you are joking right? :) i just see all the bugs just because '>' is
redirection.
Only in the shell, right?
now imagine those regexps where you need to escape all those \"
Th
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 22:54:14 Pavel Sanda wrote:
>
> now you are joking right? :) i just see all the bugs just because '>' is
> redirection. and imho manually generate \begin_layout Standard is more
> simpler
> then typing .
You are welcome to reimplement lyx in shell, good luck. :-)
> now ima
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 21:04:59 Steve Litt wrote:
> One more thing -- if you're going XML and don't want to reinvent the wheel,
> you'll be using someone else's XML parser. Please, please, PLEASE, don't
> make it some parser with tons of dependency so that the guy with a 2 year
> old distro can't
> Steve Litt wrote:
>
> this.
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Just as easy to parse, I hope. Maybe even easier.
now you are joking right? :) i just see all the bugs just because '>' is
redirection.
and imho manually generate \begin_layout Standard is more simpler
then typing .
now imagine those regexps wher
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 11:32, rgheck wrote:
> Steve Litt wrote:
> > I don't know how it will be after LyX goes XML, but right now at 1.5.3,
> > converting my LyX code to something else by parsing the LyX native code
> > would be trivial.
>
> My understanding is that, whatever happens with the LyX
Steve Litt wrote:
I don't know how it will be after LyX goes XML, but right now at 1.5.3,
converting my LyX code to something else by parsing the LyX native code would
be trivial.
My understanding is that, whatever happens with the LyX file format, we
want it to remain possible to do the s
On Tuesday 22 July 2008 06:32, Christian Ridderström wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
> > This morning I got an acceptably tagged text file out of MS Word. From
> > that moment on, things got much easier.
>
> Congratulations!
>
> I put a reference to your post on a wiki page, giving
On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Steve Litt wrote:
This morning I got an acceptably tagged text file out of MS Word. From that
moment on, things got much easier.
Congratulations!
I put a reference to your post on a wiki page, giving others that need to
do this a starting point. (If you want to summarize
This morning I got an acceptably tagged text file out of MS Word. From that
moment on, things got much easier.
I made a perl script to remove end tags, and instead put start tags on all
lines between a start and end. It also made sure there were no interlinking
tag sets. It also put all the sta
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> I don't spoze there's an rtf to LaTeX converter that doesn't require Word
> or .Net?
ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/tex/support/rtf2latex/
Or export to HTML and then run "tidy" for it. And then HTML to LaTeX with:
http://html2latex.sourceforge.net/
Then import
On Sep 4, 2007, at 2:07 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
I have another idea. I could write a series of Word macros to find
styles and
write their names as tags within the text. Then export as text,
write a Ruby
parser, and convert to LyX. Only thing is, I don't know if I can
write the
word macros to
Steve Litt wrote:
> Is there a way to transfer an MS Word document to LyX, preserving the
> paragraph and character styles in the document? I don't care how messed up
> it looks after transfer -- I can tweak the layout file to suit my needs,
> but I'd prefer not to lose styles.
>
> Anyone know ho
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote:
> > Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you
> > might then able to import to LyX
> > http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html
> > . I suspect the results
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:35, you wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007, Steve Litt wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My 1999 classic, "Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful
> > Technologist" was written in MS Word. It was a styles based document. Now
> > I want to make a second edition.
>
On 9/4/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't spoze there's an rtf to LaTeX converter that doesn't require Word
> or .Net?
There is latex2rtf and rtf2latex. Don't know if it preserves any
styles. It's available on Linux.
Bob
On 9/4/07, Steve Litt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote:
> > On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote:
> > > Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you
> > > might then able to import to LyX
> > > http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-t
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 13:34, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote:
> > Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you
> > might then able to import to LyX
> > http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html
> > . I suspect the results will be VERY
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 12:45, John Kane wrote:
> Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you
> might then able to import to LyX
> http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html
> . I suspect the results will be VERY ugly.
This looks like what I need. No matter how ugly the outp
Word-to-LaTex will give you a LaTeX file that you
might then able to import to LyX
http://kebrt.webz.cz/programs/word-to-latex/index.html
. I suspect the results will be VERY ugly.
Actually OOo is usually fine. It's Word's practice of
mangling styles that seems to mess it up. :)
--- Steve Litt
Hi all,
My 1999 classic, "Rapid Learning: Secret Weapon of the Successful
Technologist" was written in MS Word. It was a styles based document. Now I
want to make a second edition.
I tried to work on it in OpenOffice, but OpenOffice is terrible.
Is there a way to transfer an MS Word document t
--- Daniel Lohmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> John Kane schrieb:
>
> >
> > No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I
> > normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off,
> but
> > I get some very badly formatted Word documents
> for
> > internal use. Occasionally it is easier to
John Kane schrieb:
No I'm not using Word(well not if I can help it. I
normally use OOo as a WP, with "smart quotes" off, but
I get some very badly formatted Word documents for
internal use. Occasionally it is easier to put them
into LyX than it is to try to reformat them into
something readab
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> John Kane wrote:
> >> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I
> didn't
> >> produce the document but a search and replace is
> easy
> >> enough.
> I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you
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John Kane wrote:
>> Oh of course. I cannot turn it off since I didn't
>> produce the document but a search and replace is easy
>> enough.
I'm assuming that you're using Word. If you don't disable the Smart
Quote option within Word, it may well just
--- Daniel Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> John Kane wrote:
> > My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly
> > quotes)
> LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes,
> so you should be
> able to search and replace, in Word,
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John Kane wrote:
> My problem is that I am getting a ? for " (curly
> quotes)
LaTeX uses `` and '' for opening and closing quotes, so you should be
able to search and replace, in Word, for that (though there is a Smart
Quote option or somesuch that y
What is the current approach to importing Word
documents to LyX?
I don't want to do anything fancy. I have some very
poorly formatted Word docs (working docs not for
publication) and I have found that simply cutting and
pasting the text into LyX and doing a bit of
formatting can save me a lot of f
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