[Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-31 Thread Matt Lundin
Marvin, Marvin Doyley marvin...@gmail.com writes: tex4ht is awesome, it even does a good job with equations. My new workflow is org - tex - html (via tex4ht) - doc or docx (textutil) Thanks for this update! I'm glad to hear that tex4ht proved useful. Thanks also for mentioning textutil - I

[Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-30 Thread Marvin Doyley
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org wrote: Marvin Doyley marvin...@gmail.com writes: 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

[Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-30 Thread Marvin Doyley
tex4ht is awesome, it even does a good job with equations. My new workflow is org - tex - html (via tex4ht) - doc or docx (textutil) thanks everybody cheers M On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Matt Lundin m...@imapmail.org wrote: Marvin Doyley marvin...@gmail.com writes: Org mode is now a

[Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-30 Thread Jambunathan K
Hello Marvin, There is now an FAQ on converting to odt/rtf/doc, since there have been several threads on this question recently: http://orgmode.org/worg/org-faq.php#convert-to-open-office The FAQ is based largely on the helpful discussion of this issue late last month:

Re: [Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-28 Thread Eric S Fraga
Marvin Doyley marvin...@gmail.com writes: This is indeed a unique way of looking at the problem. I am not sure converting from word to Org is the way to go, because vast majority of my research notes are already in Org. But having said that a good work around could be to create a crude

[Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-28 Thread Matt Lundin
Marvin Doyley marvin...@gmail.com writes: 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

Re: [Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-27 Thread Jeff Horn
I'm not trying to be antagonistic, or insensitive to your particular situation.  But since no one else has said it, I just wanted to point out that it might be easier or more efficient, in terms of overall person-hours, to convert from Word to Org, rather than the other way around. If

Re: [Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-27 Thread Richard Lawrence
Jeff Horn jrhorn...@gmail.com writes: I'm not trying to be antagonistic, or insensitive to your particular situation.  But since no one else has said it, I just wanted to point out that it might be easier or more efficient, in terms of overall person-hours, to convert from Word to Org, rather

Re: [Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-27 Thread Marvin Doyley
This is indeed a unique way of looking at the problem. I am not sure converting from word to Org is the way to go, because vast majority of my research notes are already in Org. But having said that a good work around could be to create a crude version in word (ditch the equations, but export as

[Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-26 Thread Jambunathan K
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

[Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-26 Thread Marvin Doyley
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 kjambunat...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Marvin Org mode is now a part of my daily work-flow, not only

[Orgmode] Re: General question on dealing with Latex to word conversion

2010-10-26 Thread Richard Lawrence
Hi 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