Re: advice please: best way to export to DOC(X) with maths

["Tim O'Callaghan" <timo@linux.com>]

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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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