Hi Jambunathan,

This would be wonderful, I will keep a watch for the announcement.

Rewriting the equations shouldn't be a major problem

Best
M

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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.
>