From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 2 0:24:44 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isy.liu.se (isy.liu.se [130.236.48.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05F3414BD3 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 00:24:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mj@isy.liu.se) Received: from lagrange.isy.liu.se (lagrange.isy.liu.se [130.236.49.127]) by isy.liu.se (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAA18728 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 1999 09:24:22 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Tue, 02 Nov 1999 09:24:28 +0100 (CET) From: Micke Josefsson To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: exporting lyx to word Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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