Kudos to lyx creators!

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 7/18/24 2:26 PM, Ricardo Berlasso wrote:
>
> El jue, 18 jul 2024 a las 19:26, Steve Litt 
> (<slitt at troubleshooters.com>) escribió:
>
>
>     Is there a converter to bring a book written in WordPerfect 5.1 (DOS,
>     CLI) into LyX? I have such a book.
>
>
> You may try to open it on LibreOffice and save as odt, then import 
> into LyX. LibreOffice uses the libwpd library that, it seems, offer 
> support for such an old format:
>
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/DLP/Libraries#Import_Libraries
> https://libwpd.sourceforge.net/features.html

Or open in LibreOffice and export as LaTeX.

There is also this:

https://ctan.org/pkg/wp2latex

I used it to convert quite a lot some years ago.

None of these are flawless. It depends a lot on the complexity of the 
document.

Riki

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