Latex2rtf Download
Akiko Fleischer
Download the latex2rtf-win-gui installer for LaTeX2rtf from the link above. Run the installer and accept the default installation directory - usually C:\Program Files\latex2rtf. Open LyX and add C:\Program Files\latex2rtf to the start of the PATH Prefix line in Tools -> Preferences -> Paths. Save your changes, close LyX, restart LyX, run Reconfigure (Tools -> Reconfigure), and restart again (yes, this seems redundant, but it's necessary). Once restarted (and when a document is open), LyX should display a Rich Text Format option in the File -> Export list and should indicate the Latex (plain) -> Rich Text Format converter in Tools -> Preferences -> Converters.
If you must install LaTeX2rtf to a folder other than C:\l2r (for versions prior to 1.9.19) or C:\Program Files\latex2rtf (for version 1.9.19 and up), here's a method for getting LyX to find the converter. First, you should have a good reason for doing this.
Since .rtf documents can be read by the likes of OpenOffice, latex2rtf is handy on Linux as well. Here, the installation seems somewhat straight-forward. As for Gentoo (with LyX 1.5.2 and TeXLive-2007), it goes like this:
The latex2rtf sourceforge project has recent versions for Unix and Windows machines.This is the only place you really need to look for reasonably recent computers. I have not deleted therest of this section because it might help someone.
These two applications are based on the same v1.5 latex2rtf sourceby Ralf Schlatterbeck. They evolved separately from each other. Theyhave two philosophies about how to handle equations. latex2rtfsimply translates equation codes into a near approximation of theLaTeX. This loses all the cool formatting, but provides an editableequation in the rtf document. ltx2rtf relies on a TeX implementationto create a bitmapped image of the equation that gets put in the RTF file. This functionality is missing from this Macintosh Classic port.
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