From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ken Mankoff Subject: Re: Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciencess Date: Tue, 13 May 2014 21:38:16 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87bnv15zih.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57143) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkQ1Y-0001wn-1u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:38:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkQ1P-00033S-Ng for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:38:31 -0400 Received: from mail-ig0-x22d.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22d]:61935) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WkQ1P-000339-IQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2014 23:38:23 -0400 Received: by mail-ig0-f173.google.com with SMTP id hn18so6091154igb.6 for ; Tue, 13 May 2014 20:38:23 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Vikas Rawal Cc: org-mode mailing list Hi Vikas On 2014-05-13 at 12:52, Vikas Rawal wrote: >> >> You mentioning pandoc as one of the tools to use made me finally sit >> down and look at it. I am very glad I did. Just today, I started >> working on a paper that has to be in Word format in the end. This is >> always annoying but especially when the paper has mathematics in it. > > I have been totally addicted to Org-mode, and find it absurd to write > in Word. On the other hand, none of my collaborators use LaTeX or > Org. For a long time, I produced PDFs, circulated them, and then in > the end, when others had to work on the document, bit my lip and > converted it painfully to Word, manually fixing all LaTeX-specific > stuff. > > Pandoc is a treat and clearly the way to go, at least until > development of odt exporter catches up. Your post gave me hope that Org -> LaTeX -> docx (via pandoc) would work for me. It does not. The equations do not show up, among many other issues. I'm using Org 8.2.6, pandoc 1.12.3, Pages.app on OS X 10.9 and Word 2011 (v. 14.2.0). I use pandoc like this: pandoc -f latex -t docx test.tex -o test.docx I see Org has exported my "W m^{-2}" as "W m$^{\text{-2}}$", which is not what I would expect in LaTeX. In OS X Pages.app viewing the docx this appears as "W m". In Word it shows up either as just "-2" or "W m-2". In Word, the Math shows up with each character as a box (the math is just missing in Pages). In Word the figures are missing (they appear in Pages). Can you clarify your Org -> LaTeX -> Docx workflow? It would be nice to be able to do this. Thanks, -k.