Re: exporting zotxt or orgref links to HTML and ODF

[Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org>]

For my use case, I find the native Org to Odt export has several limitations:

1. No support for bibtex
2. I end up using quite a bit of LaTeX-specific stuff for formatting tables and graphics. All of that gets messed up when I do Org to Odt export.

I agree, a robust org to odt/docx export would be very helpful.

Vikas


> On 29-Jan-2015, at 6:54 pm, John Kitchin <johnrkitchin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> That could be an option. I was mostly looking at feasibility for org to
> docx. There is no obvious advantage to go through markdown, I just had
> some handy machinery in org-ref to export my cite links to the pandoc
> format in that export. I have since figured out a simple way to insert
> pandoc citations in org directly, and do an org -> docx in pandoc
> directly.
> 
> It looks like there are limitations all around. My sense is pandoc is
> just a temporary solution until there is (one day) a full org export to docx
> solution. I am not that experienced with the ODT export, so i don't know
> what the state of citation support in those are.
> 
> Luckily that is not something I need often, but a robust org to docx
> export would be helpful to many!
> 
> Vikas Rawal writes:
> 
>>> 
>>> The conversion is not perfect, but it gets pretty far. Probably not far
>>> enough to use for production except in the simplest cases.
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> If your main objective is support for citations, why not go from Org to LaTeX, and then use Pandoc to convert from LaTeX to DocX? Is there an advantage in going through Markdown instead of LaTeX?
>> 
>> In my experiments in going Org->LaTeX->(via Pandoc)DocX, I find Bibtex citations to work well. But there are other limitations of Pandoc (for example, lack of support for various LaTeX environments for making tables).
>> 
>> Vikas
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