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From: Russell Adams <RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.Com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:48:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101026194814.GK5161@x201> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin86p0juO12SOfzL-7kt6Nvz9tHWLCR9qksB3Gv@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 12:49:28PM -0400, Marvin Doyley wrote:
> Org mode is now a part of my daily work-flow, not only do I use it for
> teaching, scheduling my time, but I also use it to store my research notes.
> The only snag is several of my collaborators is tied to microsoft word, and
> thus my only work around is to  export my notes and draft from Org to plain
> text and then reformat everything in word, which real time sync., especially
> when I have to retype equations in Mathtype.  I know there are bunch of
> commercial software that claim to be able to convert latex files to word,
> but most are far from perfect. Is there a more efficient way of tacking
> this  problem ?  Is there is any plans of developing a org-export-rtf or
> org-export-docx  function ?

Are you using Latex due to the equation support?

I have better luck importing HTML exports into Word, perhaps you can
look into Latex snippet support for just the math and leave the rest
in HTML.

Good luck!


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-26 19:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-26 16:49 General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 17:13 ` Graham Smith
2010-10-26 17:46   ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 18:12     ` Graham Smith
2010-10-26 22:40     ` Tomas Hlavaty
2010-10-27 14:15       ` Graham Smith
2010-10-26 18:42 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-26 20:45   ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 19:48 ` Russell Adams [this message]
2010-10-26 20:47   ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 22:46     ` Russell Adams
2010-10-27  3:31 ` Richard Lawrence
2010-10-27 11:24   ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-27 14:57     ` Richard Lawrence
2010-10-27 15:02       ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-27 18:41         ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-28  7:21           ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-28  8:37             ` [WISH] Org Importers Jambunathan K
2010-10-28  9:15               ` Scot Becker
2010-10-28 10:16                 ` Peter Frings
2010-10-28 17:23                   ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-28 10:15               ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-28 11:33                 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-28 11:38                   ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-29  0:00               ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-29  2:18                 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-29 17:06                   ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-29 10:17                 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-02 22:35                 ` Bastien
2010-10-29  0:23 ` General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion Matt Lundin
2010-10-30 11:18   ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-30 11:53     ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-30 11:45   ` Marvin Doyley
2010-11-01  0:30     ` Matt Lundin

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