Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

From: Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com>
To: Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 07:18:29 -0400	[thread overview]
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Matt Lundin <mdl@imapmail.org> wrote:

> Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com> 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  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.  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  problem ?  Is there is
> > any plans of developing a org-export-rtf or org-export-docx  function ?
>
> 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
>
Hi Matt,

This is fantastic. I have used latex2rtf, but not with the best results. The
best solution on the mac seem to be html to .doc via textutils

Best.
M

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