Hi Steve,
<< I notice that your conversion isn't done by OO itself, but by
ConvertDoc. Does ConvertDoc pass through paragraph and character
styles? If so, this is VERY useful. Note that I don't even care if it
translates the style defs -- I can just make a layout. What I want is a
final doc with
Thanks, maybe I'll try this. I have a lot of documents in
MS Word that I continually update, and ideally I would like
to convert all of those to LyX. So far, though, it has been
too cumbersome to be worth the while, so I continue
to use MS Word.
On Saturday 31 July 2010 22:10:14 Rob Oakes wrote:
> Hi Anders,
>
> I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on
> the HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described
> here:
>
> http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import
>
> W
Hi Anders,
I've had good success first converting to HTML, then running a filter on the
HTML, and then importing to LyX. The overall process is described here:
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/05/14/msword-lyx-import
While some formatting is lost, it's mostly the type of formatting that
Just a comment here, not a solution.
A problem is, as stated, that open office produces very poor latex. It seems
that the goal of the designers of the translation module was to make
the latex output resemble the formatting of the open office document, rather
than making the contents the same. Tha
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 07/30/2010 11:50 AM, David Hopkins wrote:
>>
>> There are two issues:
>>
>> 1) if I use writer2latex and get the 'ugly' LaTex. The first error is
>> a misplaced \noalign in a table which seems to cascade into a lot of
>> other errors.
>>
>
On 07/30/2010 11:50 AM, David Hopkins wrote:
There are two issues:
1) if I use writer2latex and get the 'ugly' LaTex. The first error is
a misplaced \noalign in a table which seems to cascade into a lot of
other errors.
This is the kind of thing for which a perl script is helpful.
2) th
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 07/30/2010 11:16 AM, David Hopkins wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote:
>>>
If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a t
On 07/30/2010 11:16 AM, David Hopkins wrote:
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote:
If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex
file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands to compile
directly
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Richard Heck wrote:
> On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote:
>>
>> If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex
>> file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands to compile
>> directly. However, I'd like to then import that docum
On 07/30/2010 10:25 AM, David Hopkins wrote:
If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex
file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands to compile
directly. However, I'd like to then import that document into LyX. My
issue is that I seem to need to create a layout t
If I export an OOo document using writer2latex.oxt, it outputs a tex
file which has all the necessary tex/latex commands to compile
directly. However, I'd like to then import that document into LyX. My
issue is that I seem to need to create a layout that uses everthing
between the \documentclass a
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