From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric S Fraga Subject: Re: Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 08:21:52 +0100 Message-ID: <877hh2235b.fsf@pinto.chemeng.ucl.ac.uk> References: <87wrp45n2a.fsf@berkeley.edu> <878w1j65va.fsf@berkeley.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=43581 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PBMoB-0006bh-MG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:22:01 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBMo9-0002O2-I3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:21:59 -0400 Received: from vscani-e.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.33]:46734) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PBMo9-0002NU-E5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2010 03:21:57 -0400 In-Reply-To: (Marvin Doyley's message of "Wed, 27 Oct 2010 14:41:21 -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: Richard Lawrence , Jeff Horn , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Marvin Doyley writes: > This is indeed a unique way of looking at the problem. I am not sure > converting from word to Org is > the way to go, because vast majority of my research notes are already > in Org. But having said that a > good work around could be to create a crude version in word (ditch the > equations, but export as > plain text), get everyone comments, and incorporate the changes in Org > before exporting to latex > This will try this in the initial stage of my next grant proposal. My workflow, when required to collaborate with Word (or OOo) users is to export org to HTML, use OOo to convert to Word and send that out. I ask my collaborators to /track changes/ in the Word document and I then manually incorporate these changes into my original org document. Not ideal but it does the job. However, what would be ideal would be if there were a tool which would take a Word document with /track changes/ and generate a patch file for a text version of that document... that could then provide some mechanism for getting changes back into an org document (modulo problems with line re-arrangements unfortunately). Just a pipe dream... -- Eric S Fraga GnuPG: 8F5C 279D 3907 E14A 5C29 570D C891 93D8 FFFC F67D