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Yes, I tried that. The homepage says it's translated into several languages, but I don't know where to choose the language. My System is not in English, so maybe there is an automatic selection that gets it wrong.

I tried this, too, but it's dialogues appear in French and I don't know how to change the language. But it does the conversion quite well, indeed.

I am trying to import a long text (300 pages) (plain text without pictures of maths) from Writer into Lyx. I want to keep a minimum of formatting (italics) and the footnotes. The best solution I found is to
export html from writer
convert the resulting to latex with gnuhtml2latex
Import the ...