From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Lundin Subject: Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:23:10 -0400 Message-ID: <8762wlalu9.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59317 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBcoH-0001ni-Kg for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:27:11 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBckT-0003lx-Ay for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:23:15 -0400 Received: from out2.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.26]:56417) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBckT-0003lk-75 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 20:23:13 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Marvin Doyley's message of "Tue, 26 Oct 2010 12:49:28 -0400") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Marvin Doyley Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Marvin Doyley writes: > 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=C2=A0 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.=C2=A0 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=C2=A0 problem ?=C2=A0 Is th= ere is > any plans of developing a org-export-rtf or org-export-docx=C2=A0 functio= n ? There is now an FAQ on converting to odt/rtf/doc, since there have been several threads on this question recently: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#convert-to-open-office The FAQ is based largely on the helpful discussion of this issue late last month: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/31168 Please feel free to suggest other methods you'd like to see in the FAQ. Marvin: I'm not sure whether the methods in the FAQ address the problem of math equations. I believe that some exporters (such as latex2rtf) convert equations to images, while others (such as ttf) try to render them in html, etc. Might I ask which converters[1] you have tried? I might be helpful for the org community to know what does *not* work. I've had great success with tex4ht and latex2rtf, but my documents don't include math equations. :) Best, Matt Footnotes: [1] http://www.tug.org/applications/tex4ht/mn.html#QQ1-1-83