From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:12:34 +0530 Message-ID: <81fwvsztgl.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56276 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PApeH-0000DD-BG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 15:57:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAoU7-0005cr-9L for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:43:01 -0400 Received: from mail-yx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.213.169]:53980) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PAoU7-0005ch-6l for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:42:59 -0400 Received: by yxm34 with SMTP id 34so2951798yxm.0 for ; Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:42:58 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (Marvin Doyley's message of "Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:49:28 -0400") 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: Marvin Doyley Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hello Marvin > 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 am currently working on a converter that converts directly from Orgmode to OpenDocumentText (.odt). It is likely to take another 1-2 months before I get a preview version out. Please watch out for announcement in this list. Looks like you are particularly interested in reproducing Math equations. At this stage, it is not clear to me how I would support equations. Since the converter is built from HTML exporter it would handle the equations just the way HTML exporter handles equations. For now, AFAICS, people either resort to 1. Orgmode->HTML->OpenOffice 2. Orgmode->Docbook->Openoffice Have you tried any of (1) and (2). What are your observations particularly wrt equations? > 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 ? Jambunathan K.