From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Leduc Subject: Re: Sharing documents with bibtex bibliography from org to non-org users Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 07:05:19 -0400 Message-ID: References: <26f59a91-f9e1-3a95-13c9-300f97d40f16@gmail.com> Reply-To: ldcmrtn@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40522) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZgxo-0004Lw-U6 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:11:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZgxh-00024U-Cy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:11:40 -0400 Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=52935 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bZgxh-00023m-64 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 12:11:33 -0400 Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bZcBT-000791-Lz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:05:27 +0200 In-Reply-To: <26f59a91-f9e1-3a95-13c9-300f97d40f16@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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 > > > > Sorry for double posting... please take this one. M.