The advantage of exporting via Pandoc is the possibility of including
bibliographic citations. Do you know if it is possible to do this via
ODT?
Julian
Ken Mankoff writes:
> Hi,
>
> There is occasional discussion on the list (or SE or Reddit) about how to
> best work with Word documents. In the past I've suggested Org -> Pandoc ->
> DOCX because that worked best for me when producing documents with equations,
> figures and tables. It didn't work great, but it worked best.
>
> I've recently found a new workflow that seems much better, and wanted to let
> others know about it. It removes the need for Pandoc and only uses Org and
> LibreOffice.
>
> 1) Export to DOC (not DOCX) via ODT. Inline \(math\) in DOCX still looks
> pretty bad, but is fine in DOC.
>
> (require 'ox-odt)
> (setq org-odt-preferred-output-format "doc")
> (setq org-odt-convert-processes '(("LibreOffice"
> "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to
> %f%x %i"))))
>
> 2) Run the following LibreOffice Macro to clean things up. I've assigned this
> to a toolbar button to make it easy to access. Add strings you want to
> disappear to "mTeXStringsNO" and pairs of strings you want converted to the
> "mTeXStringsCNV" arrays.
>
> 3) Email to Word Users. I always email the PDF copy to so they can see the
> (psuedo)canonical version of the document.
>
> I hope this is helpful to some of you,
>
> -k.
>
>
>
>
> Sub ReplaceTeXStrings
> Dim mTeXStringsNO(99) As String
> Dim mTeXStringsCNVfrom(99) As String
> Dim mTexStringsCNVto(99) As String
> Dim n As Long
> Dim oDocument As Object
> Dim oReplace As Object
>
> mTeXStringsNO() = Array("\(", "\)", "\ref", "\mathrm", _
> "\begin{equation}", "\end{equation}", "\left", "\right", _
> "\singlespacing", "\doublespacing")
>
> mTeXStringsCNV() = Array("\sigma","σ", "\rho","ρ", "\sum","∑", _
> "\phi","ɸ", "\partial","∂", "^{th}","th", "^{{th}}","th", _
> "^{-1}","-1", "^{-2}","-2")
>
> oDocument = ThisComponent
> oReplace = oDocument.createReplaceDescriptor
> For n = lbound(mTeXStringsNO()) To ubound(mTeXStringsNO())
> oReplace.SearchString = mTexStringsNO(n)
> oReplace.ReplaceString = ""
> oDocument.replaceAll(oReplace)
> Next n
> For n = lbound(mTeXStringsCNV()) To ubound(mTeXStringsCNV()) Step 2
> oReplace.SearchString = mTexStringsCNV(n)
> oReplace.ReplaceString = mTexStringsCNV(n+1)
> oDocument.replaceAll(oReplace)
> Next n
> End Sub
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Julian Mariano Burgos, PhD
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