From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell Adams Subject: Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:48:14 -0500 Message-ID: <20101026194814.GK5161@x201> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=40574 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PApVV-0000XD-EG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:48:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PApVK-00040I-Et for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:48:21 -0400 Received: from squirtle.drak.net ([72.52.144.201]:47838) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PApVK-0003yG-9F for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:48:18 -0400 Received: from [76.7.92.154] (helo=localhost) by squirtle.drak.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PApVA-0003aK-BD for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:48:08 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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! ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3