Convert Mac Word and Thesis to LyX

[Jean-Marc Lasgouttes]

Le 18/04/2024 à 16:59, Richard Kimberly Heck a écrit :
> On 4/17/24 16:57, Brian Kneller via lyx-users wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I hope I am in the correct space. — I have prepared a thesis for a PhD 
>>  (75K words)and approx 80 figures, the text in Mac-word and the 
>> figures are in Adobe Illustrator so I have some flexibility in Format. 
>> Also there are many references. I hold all my references and comments 
>> on them in Bookends. I regret not looking at lyx/latex and using them 
>> much earlier so I am looking for an easy way to migrate this info into 
>> Lyx and I am also looking for a Thesis  template. I have dowloaded and 
>> installed Lyx on my Macbook Pro (Mavericks) and been thro the intro 
>> etc. I am trying to minimise the effort in migration to Lyx so 
>> any comments and advice is most welcome.
> 
> It should not be difficult to convert the main bulk of the text. You can 
> export LaTeX from LibreOffice or use Pandoc to convert Word to LaTeX, 
> then import the LaTeX document into LyX.

I will add that this is true if your Word document uses styles for 
things like sections. Also, I am not sure what is going to happen if you 
have math equations.

JMarc