Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 09:24:28 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson <mj@isy.liu.se> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: exporting lyx to word Message-ID: <XFMail.991102092428.mj@isy.liu.se> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9911011531420.45098-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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On 01-Nov-99 J McKitrick wrote: > I checked the help menus in LyX and the import filters in Word, and I > really can't tell how this is done. I like the look of Lyx, and I would > like to learn to use it, but only if my professors, who use MS Word, can > read it. I do very little printing, BTW. Is there an output format from > LyX that can be easily read by MS Word? > > -jm > This is not a solution but: I have found that going via .RTF-documents is a good way when converting database entries to word docs. In my case I used word to get a template with field identifiers and saved that in .RTF. Then after a couple of hours with awk to generate a sed-script I could produce .rtf's that looked exemplary when imported to word. It does involve some work on your own, though:( I recently stumbled over Sed and Awk (O'Reilly), now I don't see how I have managed without them... /Micke ---------------------------------- Michael Josefsson, MSEE mj@isy.liu.se This message was sent by XFMail running on FreeBSD 3.1 ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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