Re: Exporting an article to a (very) specific formatting template

[mohamed <mohamed.hibti@gmail.com>]

James Harkins <jamshark70 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 
> Actually, let me take a few steps back from my specific question about
> the title command. There are some other workflow questions that might
> make that question redundant.
> 
> This journal (for some reason unknown to me) has designed the
> publication format in MS Word, and there are some specific
> requirements. So I have a couple of choices:
> 
> - Export to LaTeX, and try to reproduce their layout (likely with a
>   new document class based on "article"). That's a chunk of work, but
>   they also confirmed that I could send PDF as long as it follows the
>   style guidelines.
> 
> - Export to ODT. This is probably simpler for setup -- I'd probably
>   just need to change some of the names of paragraph or character
>   styles in their template so that org can find them for section
>   headings, abstract etc. But... there is more risk of the formatting
>   breaking. If I send .odt, MS Word might choke on it, or similar
>   if I resave my .odt as .docx. (The word online is that LibreOffice
>   does not do well saving docx.)
> 
> Or, export to ODT and let LibreOffice turn that into a PDF. I hesitate
> to do this, when LaTeX is a far superior typesetter. (But, tweaking
> all the formatting details in LaTeX is quite likely to give me some
> more gray hairs...)
> 
> Advice? Thanks --
> hjh
> 
> 

I used both aproaches :
- Usually I customize the org options (latex templates) to meet the
requirements of the final document. It is convenient for me to stay in
emacs. For the gray hairs, you do it once and thus you have minor
modifications. 

- But sometimes when I work with other colleagues I need to have something
more common, odt seems fine but as you mentioned you may have to add a final
manual toutch to be sure your document can be modified by the others.

 
Regards,