* Org + MS DOC
@ 2016-02-04 18:26 Ken Mankoff
2016-02-04 21:28 ` Julian M. Burgos
2016-02-05 9:01 ` Eric S Fraga
0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ken Mankoff @ 2016-02-04 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: org-mode
Hi,
There is occasional discussion on the list (or SE or Reddit) about how to best work with Word documents. In the past I've suggested Org -> Pandoc -> DOCX because that worked best for me when producing documents with equations, figures and tables. It didn't work great, but it worked best.
I've recently found a new workflow that seems much better, and wanted to let others know about it. It removes the need for Pandoc and only uses Org and LibreOffice.
1) Export to DOC (not DOCX) via ODT. Inline \(math\) in DOCX still looks pretty bad, but is fine in DOC.
(require 'ox-odt)
(setq org-odt-preferred-output-format "doc")
(setq org-odt-convert-processes '(("LibreOffice" "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to %f%x %i"))))
2) Run the following LibreOffice Macro to clean things up. I've assigned this to a toolbar button to make it easy to access. Add strings you want to disappear to "mTeXStringsNO" and pairs of strings you want converted to the "mTeXStringsCNV" arrays.
3) Email to Word Users. I always email the PDF copy to so they can see the (psuedo)canonical version of the document.
I hope this is helpful to some of you,
-k.
Sub ReplaceTeXStrings
Dim mTeXStringsNO(99) As String
Dim mTeXStringsCNVfrom(99) As String
Dim mTexStringsCNVto(99) As String
Dim n As Long
Dim oDocument As Object
Dim oReplace As Object
mTeXStringsNO() = Array("\(", "\)", "\ref", "\mathrm", _
"\begin{equation}", "\end{equation}", "\left", "\right", _
"\singlespacing", "\doublespacing")
mTeXStringsCNV() = Array("\sigma","σ", "\rho","ρ", "\sum","∑", _
"\phi","ɸ", "\partial","∂", "^{th}","th", "^{{th}}","th", _
"^{-1}","-1", "^{-2}","-2")
oDocument = ThisComponent
oReplace = oDocument.createReplaceDescriptor
For n = lbound(mTeXStringsNO()) To ubound(mTeXStringsNO())
oReplace.SearchString = mTexStringsNO(n)
oReplace.ReplaceString = ""
oDocument.replaceAll(oReplace)
Next n
For n = lbound(mTeXStringsCNV()) To ubound(mTeXStringsCNV()) Step 2
oReplace.SearchString = mTexStringsCNV(n)
oReplace.ReplaceString = mTexStringsCNV(n+1)
oDocument.replaceAll(oReplace)
Next n
End Sub
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* Re: Org + MS DOC
2016-02-04 18:26 Org + MS DOC Ken Mankoff
@ 2016-02-04 21:28 ` Julian M. Burgos
2016-02-04 21:44 ` Ken Mankoff
2016-02-05 9:01 ` Eric S Fraga
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Julian M. Burgos @ 2016-02-04 21:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ken Mankoff; +Cc: org-mode
The advantage of exporting via Pandoc is the possibility of including
bibliographic citations. Do you know if it is possible to do this via
ODT?
Julian
Ken Mankoff writes:
> Hi,
>
> There is occasional discussion on the list (or SE or Reddit) about how to best work with Word documents. In the past I've suggested Org -> Pandoc -> DOCX because that worked best for me when producing documents with equations, figures and tables. It didn't work great, but it worked best.
>
> I've recently found a new workflow that seems much better, and wanted to let others know about it. It removes the need for Pandoc and only uses Org and LibreOffice.
>
> 1) Export to DOC (not DOCX) via ODT. Inline \(math\) in DOCX still looks pretty bad, but is fine in DOC.
>
> (require 'ox-odt)
> (setq org-odt-preferred-output-format "doc")
> (setq org-odt-convert-processes '(("LibreOffice" "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to %f%x %i"))))
>
> 2) Run the following LibreOffice Macro to clean things up. I've assigned this to a toolbar button to make it easy to access. Add strings you want to disappear to "mTeXStringsNO" and pairs of strings you want converted to the "mTeXStringsCNV" arrays.
>
> 3) Email to Word Users. I always email the PDF copy to so they can see the (psuedo)canonical version of the document.
>
> I hope this is helpful to some of you,
>
> -k.
>
>
>
>
> Sub ReplaceTeXStrings
> Dim mTeXStringsNO(99) As String
> Dim mTeXStringsCNVfrom(99) As String
> Dim mTexStringsCNVto(99) As String
> Dim n As Long
> Dim oDocument As Object
> Dim oReplace As Object
>
> mTeXStringsNO() = Array("\(", "\)", "\ref", "\mathrm", _
> "\begin{equation}", "\end{equation}", "\left", "\right", _
> "\singlespacing", "\doublespacing")
>
> mTeXStringsCNV() = Array("\sigma","σ", "\rho","ρ", "\sum","∑", _
> "\phi","ɸ", "\partial","∂", "^{th}","th", "^{{th}}","th", _
> "^{-1}","-1", "^{-2}","-2")
>
> oDocument = ThisComponent
> oReplace = oDocument.createReplaceDescriptor
> For n = lbound(mTeXStringsNO()) To ubound(mTeXStringsNO())
> oReplace.SearchString = mTexStringsNO(n)
> oReplace.ReplaceString = ""
> oDocument.replaceAll(oReplace)
> Next n
> For n = lbound(mTeXStringsCNV()) To ubound(mTeXStringsCNV()) Step 2
> oReplace.SearchString = mTexStringsCNV(n)
> oReplace.ReplaceString = mTexStringsCNV(n+1)
> oDocument.replaceAll(oReplace)
> Next n
> End Sub
--
Julian Mariano Burgos, PhD
Hafrannsóknastofnun/Marine Research Institute
Skúlagata 4, 121 Reykjavík, Iceland
Sími/Telephone : +354-5752037
Bréfsími/Telefax: +354-5752001
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* Re: Org + MS DOC
2016-02-04 21:28 ` Julian M. Burgos
@ 2016-02-04 21:44 ` Ken Mankoff
0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Ken Mankoff @ 2016-02-04 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Julian M. Burgos; +Cc: org-mode
On 2016-02-04 at 16:28, Julian M. Burgos <julian@hafro.is> wrote:
> The advantage of exporting via Pandoc is the possibility of including
> bibliographic citations. Do you know if it is possible to do this via
> ODT?
I think ODT can do it w/ extra work (JabRef?) but my method does not. Yes pandoc does support that. The final product appears improved enough via this new method that I think I'll cut-and-paste the reference list from PDF.
-k.
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* Re: Org + MS DOC
2016-02-04 18:26 Org + MS DOC Ken Mankoff
2016-02-04 21:28 ` Julian M. Burgos
@ 2016-02-05 9:01 ` Eric S Fraga
1 sibling, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Eric S Fraga @ 2016-02-05 9:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Ken Mankoff; +Cc: org-mode
Ken,
lately, for the few luckily infrequent times that I need to share a
document with a Word user, I have found that exporting to ODT is
sufficient. ODT documents can be loaded in (recent?) versions of MS
Office although the latter complains that the document is corrupt but is
able to "fix" it... Equations, in particular, come through as well as I
could expect.
--
: Eric S Fraga (0xFFFCF67D), Emacs 25.0.50.1, Org release_8.3.3-531-g8003ef
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