From: Marvin Doyley <marvinpas@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:45:01 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikhFfLXNMxmXNXPsx4oowTFZDsnLF6Ud3enn4Ma@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Hi Jambunathan,
This would be wonderful, I will keep a watch for the announcement.
Rewriting the equations shouldn't be a major problem
Best
M
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hello Marvin
>
> > Org mode is now a part of my daily work-flow, not only do I use it for
> > teaching, scheduling my time, but I also use it to store my research
> notes.
> > The only snag is several of my collaborators is tied to microsoft word,
> and
> > thus my only work around is to export my notes and draft from Org to
> plain
> > text and then reformat everything in word, which real time sync.,
> especially
> > when I have to retype equations in Mathtype.
>
> I am currently working on a converter that converts directly from
> Orgmode to OpenDocumentText (.odt). It is likely to take another 1-2
> months before I get a preview version out.
>
> Please watch out for announcement in this list.
>
> Looks like you are particularly interested in reproducing Math
> equations. At this stage, it is not clear to me how I would support
> equations. Since the converter is built from HTML exporter it would
> handle the equations just the way HTML exporter handles equations.
>
> For now, AFAICS, people either resort to
>
> 1. Orgmode->HTML->OpenOffice
> 2. Orgmode->Docbook->Openoffice
>
> Have you tried any of (1) and (2). What are your observations
> particularly wrt equations?
>
> > I know there are bunch of commercial software that claim to be able to
> > convert latex files to word, but most are far from perfect. Is there a
> > more efficient way of tacking this problem ? Is there is any plans of
> > developing a org-export-rtf or org-export-docx function ?
>
> Jambunathan K.
>
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-26 16:49 General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 17:13 ` Graham Smith
2010-10-26 17:46 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 18:12 ` Graham Smith
2010-10-26 22:40 ` Tomas Hlavaty
2010-10-27 14:15 ` Graham Smith
2010-10-26 18:42 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-26 20:45 ` Marvin Doyley [this message]
2010-10-26 19:48 ` Russell Adams
2010-10-26 20:47 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-26 22:46 ` Russell Adams
2010-10-27 3:31 ` Richard Lawrence
2010-10-27 11:24 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-27 14:57 ` Richard Lawrence
2010-10-27 15:02 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-27 18:41 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-28 7:21 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-28 8:37 ` [WISH] Org Importers Jambunathan K
2010-10-28 9:15 ` Scot Becker
2010-10-28 10:16 ` Peter Frings
2010-10-28 17:23 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-28 10:15 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-28 11:33 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-28 11:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2010-10-29 0:00 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-29 2:18 ` Jeff Horn
2010-10-29 17:06 ` Matt Lundin
2010-10-29 10:17 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-02-02 22:35 ` Bastien
2010-10-29 0:23 ` General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion Matt Lundin
2010-10-30 11:18 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-10-30 11:53 ` Jambunathan K
2010-10-30 11:45 ` Marvin Doyley
2010-11-01 0:30 ` Matt Lundin
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