Convert Mac Word and Thesis to LyX
Jean-Marc Lasgouttes
lasgouttes at lyx.org
Thu Apr 18 15:20:31 UTC 2024
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
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