Re: Using Emacs, Org-mode and R for Research Writing in Social Sciencess

[Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>]

On 2014-05-14 at 01:00, Vikas Rawal <vikaslists@agrarianresearch.org> wrote:
>> 
>> pandoc -f latex -t docx test.tex -o test.docx
>> 
>> I see Org has exported my "W m^{-2}" as "W m$^{\text{-2}}$", which is
>> not what I would expect in LaTeX. In OS X Pages.app viewing the docx
>> this appears as "W m". In Word it shows up either as just "-2" or "W
>> m-2". In Word, the Math shows up with each character as a box (the math
>> is just missing in Pages). In Word the figures are missing (they appear
>> in Pages).
>> 
>
> First, you should differentiate between whether the problem is in
> Org->LaTeX conversion, or in LaTeX->Docx conversion.
>
> From what you describe above, the problem seems to be in Org->LaTeX conversion. 
>
> For me, $W m^{-2}$ in Org produces correct LaTeX markup, and I get a good docx using Pandoc.

Yes that equation problem seems to be due to me and Org->LaTeX.

But elsewhere I have

\begin{equation}
x=42
\end{equation}

in Org, which looks just like that in LaTeX, and that appears as just
strange little extended ASCII boxes in MS Word.

  -k.