From: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
To: Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbszh.ch>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: any idea how to convert org file to MS WORD an retain text structure?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:45:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87631kfdmq.fsf@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vd9kqtko.fsf@saadawi.sbszh.ch> (Christian Egli's message of "Tue, 15 Jun 2010 16:05:59 +0200")
Christian Egli <christian.egli@sbszh.ch> writes:
> Rainer Stengele <rainer.stengele@diplan.de> writes:
>
>> I love to edit documents in Org.
>
> I know what you mean.
>
>> Unfortunately I have to finally deliver text in MS Word.
>
> Sometimes I find myself in that situation.
>
>> Any idea how to best export/convert my org file to Word?
>
> I've used latex export followed by latex2rtf in the past. Most things
> work reasonably well, other like toc don't seem to work. So some manual
> fidgeting is required in the end.
+1 for latex2rtf (for simple documents).
For industrial-strength conversion, I'd recommend tex4ht. It has handled
every LaTeX feature I've thrown at it (biblatex, toc, index, footnotes)
with aplomb.
http://www.tug.org/tex4ht/
You can convert tex directly to odt and then save as a doc file within
OpenOffice.
- Matt
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-15 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-15 12:27 any idea how to convert org file to MS WORD an retain text structure? Rainer Stengele
2010-06-15 13:01 ` Puneeth Chaganti
2010-06-15 13:45 ` Giovanni Ridolfi
2010-06-15 13:50 ` Rainer Stengele
2010-06-15 13:51 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-06-15 15:16 ` Russell Adams
2010-06-15 16:01 ` Srinivas
2010-06-15 20:16 ` Russell Adams
2010-06-16 13:32 ` Rainer Stengele
2010-06-15 13:01 ` moabi2000
2010-06-15 14:05 ` Christian Egli
2010-06-15 16:45 ` Matt Lundin [this message]
2010-07-06 16:55 ` Gil Brandao
2010-07-06 19:25 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-07-06 23:48 ` Torsten Wagner
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