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

[Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com>]

On 12/17/2017 10:14 PM, Grant Rettke wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Scott Randby <srandby@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/15/2017 01:43 PM, Grant Rettke wrote:
>>> Write it in Org. Export to Pandoc file pandoc-A.
>>>
>>> Export Pandoc file pandoc-A to Word file word-A. Send that to your
>>> peers for review.
>>>
>>> Export Word file word-A to Pandoc file pandoc-B.
>>>
>>> Get the Word from your peers, the file with changes from their review,
>>> word-C. Export it to pandoc-C
>>>
>>> Do a diff between pandoc-B and pandoc-C. Integrate the results into
>>> your original Org file.
>>
>> I'm confused. My understanding is that Pandoc converts between file formats, so I don't understand what you mean by a Pandoc file. What is the file format of pandoc-A?
>>
>> Is this what you mean?
>>
>> Pandoc: Org -> word-A
>> Pandoc: word-A -> pandoc-B.org
>> Pandoc: word-C -> pandoc-C.org
> 
> Pandoc has their own markup language "Pandoc Markdown". That is what I
> meant by "Pandoc". And that was totally wrong in regards to your
> question. Sorry my mistake.
> 
> You said it right, yes. It makes it easy to diff the "reverse
> engineered" Org fils to see what changed from the reviewers.

I appreciate the clarification. Your method is very useful to me since I frequently have to work with people who know nothing but Word and since LibreOffice doesn't deal well with some of the poorly formatted DOCX files I receive. I've been experimenting with some sample files, and your method works great.

I know this is a lost cause, but I dream of the future in which document collaboration is done using only text files.

Scott
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