Re: Sharing documents with bibtex bibliography from org to non-org users

[Martin Leduc <ldcmrtn@gmail.com>]

On 08/15/2016 11:36 PM, Martin Leduc wrote:
> Hi orgers,
>
> People using org-mode or LaTeX to write scientific papers inevitably
> face problems when time comes to share a manuscript with co-authors for
> reviewing. Unless one decides to restrict the choice of his co-authors
> based exclusively on their knowledge of LaTeX, collaborators generally
> use Microsoft Word to write their documents.
>
> One way to share LaTeX documents with non-LaTeX users is to simply
> copy-paste the LaTeX file into a Word document. You can then share this
> file with other people along with a pdf-compiled version of the
> manuscript allowing them to see all references, bibliography, equations
> and figures. This is the most convenient approach for the first author,
> who can simply copy-paste back the text into a tex file after the rounds
> of review and then compile the LaTeX manuscript again following some
> minor debugging.
>
> However, the latter approach may not be suitable in situations where the
> document is intended to stay into a word format for whatever reason. It
> could be for instance because you want to be kind with some co-authors
> that wouldn't pay much interest into a scary document filled with
> complicated codes.
>
> So I would like to know what are the best known strategies to circumvent
> the latter issue. To simplify, I accept that I will need to rewrite the
> equations (and eq. numbers) in the Word document. What I really want,
> however, is all the citations and the list of references being managed
> automatically at the step of exporting from org to ODT or to Plain Text.
>
> The only solution I see now is to export the org document to a plain pdf
> (e.g. with no page numbers) and then to copy-paste the pdf into a Word
> document. This strategy is cumbersome because a lot of work is generally
> needed to format the word document (page wrapping, no line breaks
> between paragraphs, words hyphenation, etc).
>
> Is there any cleaner solutions to this issue ? Or more general ideas on
> how we could facilitate the sharing of documents containing a bibtex
> bibliography between org and non-org users ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Martin
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Sorry for double posting... please take this one.
M.