From: Adrian Bradd <adrian.bradd@gmail.com>
To: Tim O'Callaghan <timo@linux.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: advice please: best way to export to DOC(X) with maths
Date: Mon, 25 Dec 2017 23:09:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2shbyjfkx.fsf@columbia.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAArV04N=+YnNmy7BKeyRS2O-sfkvoWru-r0fUug+TFBFgtBorw@mail.gmail.com>
According to Karl's post [1], pandoc now supports conversion with some
template support. I haven't tried it myself though.
Cheers,
Adrian
[1] http://www.karl-voit.at/2017/12/17/pandoc-docx-reference/
Tim O'Callaghan <timo@linux.com> writes:
> Thanks!
> I will experiment with this work-flow, but i have one other issue, any
> advice on working with existing (word) document templates?
> I have to work within templates, so it would be great if i could manage to
> conform.
>
> On 19 December 2017 at 06:09, <edgar@openmail.cc> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-12-15 12:28, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>>
>>> On Friday, 15 Dec 2017 at 03:20, edgar@openmail.cc wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> I only know how to do a rough approximation by means of pandoc:
>>>>
>>>> #+BEGIN_SRC bash
>>>> pandoc -f org+smart my-original.org -t docx+smart -o my-output.docx
>>>> #+END_SRC
>>>>
>>>
>>> What version of pandoc are you using? My Debian (testing) has pandoc
>>> 1.19.2.4 and it does not seem to recognise the +smart bits...
>>>
>>> But, in any case, pandoc (without the smart bits) does seem to do a
>>> reasonable job and creates proper maths entities. This is good enough
>>> for me! My once a year pain is relieved. :-)
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> eric
>>>
>>
>> I'm sorry for the very late response (deadlines). I will check for the
>> pandoc version and let you know. One of the distros that I use is a rolling
>> linux. The other one is the same as yours. I would also like to note that I
>> got the pandoc snippet from Dr. Kitchin's website:
>> http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu/blog/2015/01/29/Export-org
>> -mode-to-docx-with-citations-via-pandoc/
>>
>> I checked, and I am very satisfied with ~C-c C-e o o~. I set #+OPTIONS:
>> dvipng. You can't edit the formulas, but I don't care about that. All my
>> equations look fine and the pictures too. I also have to copy my references
>> by hand, but that is the least of my issues, and I only do it when the
>> final version is ready. I also get my source blocks right.
>>
>> I think that the only thing which is really missing from Org as related to
>> exporting is handling pictures inside tables (a way to create subfigures).
>> There is a partial solution with ox-latex-subfigure [[
>> https://github.com/linktohack/ox-latex-subfigure]], but is limited in the
>> :width parameter. One of these days I will learn LISP and implement it
>> myself (unless another brave soul goes for it first). Even Beamer columns
>> can be used to this end, but this would only work for presentations. I
>> don't know any other way.
>>
>>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-26 4:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-15 3:20 advice please: best way to export to DOC(X) with maths edgar
2017-12-15 12:28 ` Eric S Fraga
2017-12-19 5:09 ` edgar
2017-12-21 8:58 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2017-12-26 4:09 ` Adrian Bradd [this message]
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-12-14 12:18 Eric S Fraga
2017-12-15 12:58 ` Fabrice Popineau
2017-12-15 13:30 ` Eric S Fraga
2017-12-15 14:54 ` Tim O'Callaghan
2017-12-15 18:15 ` Adonay Felipe Nogueira
2017-12-15 18:43 ` Grant Rettke
2017-12-17 16:55 ` Scott Randby
2017-12-18 3:14 ` Grant Rettke
2017-12-18 23:45 ` Scott Randby
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