This question is similar to many others posted on these forums, but the answers I have seen have not solved my problem (e.g. at Converting Latex to MsWord .doc or .rtf). Please forgive me if this is repetitive, and point me in the direction of its solution. I will be deeply indebted to anyone who has ideas.
In brief, I wrote my dissertation in XeLaTeX largely because of the flexibility of biblatex. I work in a field wherein I have to cite a lot of East Asian source materials, and getting other reference managers to output these sorts of references correctly has been difficult. Biblatex works beautifully, and I'd be sorry to give it up.
However, now that I am on the other side of my dissertation, I need to submit papers (and manuscripts) for publication. In my backwards field, such papers very often need to be submitted as a Word document.
I need now to consider whether I can keep Xelatex, biblatex, and the large bibliography file I created during my dissertation as part of my workflow--even if the end product sometimes has to be a Word-readable and Word-editable document. I know of several programs that can convert an uncompiled Xelatex document to other formats (pandoc, etc.). And I know that tex4ht can convert some LaTeX documents to html or odt after running biber. But for reasons I can't understand (that may have to do with incompatibilities between Tex4ht and xelatex?), it does not seem to work on my stuff. (I am working on Windows 10 with MikTex.)
The documents I need to be able to produce are fairly simple (although cjk bibliography requires some definitions to be able to work). I don't have graphs, charts, or images to include: just Chinese and Japanese texts.
Here is an extremely minimal example that I cannot get to work. This is the latex file:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xeCJK}
\setmainfont[Ligatures={Common, TeX}]{Times New Roman}
\setCJKmainfont[Scale=1]{SimSun}
\begin{document}
Zhupo shihua 竹坡詩話
\end{document}
Of course, this extremely minimal code compiles perfectly into a pdf with Xelatex. When I then go to run htlatex on it (i.e. in the command prompt, I type: htlatex test.tex), I get the following error message:
C:\Users\lbxxx>latex \makeatletter\def\HCode{\futurelet\HCode\HChar}\def\HChar{\ifx"\HCode\def\HCode"##1"{\Link##1}\expandafter\HCode\else\expandafter\Link\fi}\def\Link#1.a.b.c.{\g@addto@macro\@documentclasshook{\RequirePackage[#1,html]{tex4ht}}\let\HCode\documentstyle\def\documentstyle{\let\documentstyle\HCode\expandafter\def\csname tex4ht\endcsname{#1,html}\def\HCode####1{\documentstyle[tex4ht,}\@ifnextchar[{\HCode}{\documentstyle[tex4ht]}}}\makeatother\HCode .a.b.c.\input "C:\Users\lbxxx\Desktop\Tex Testing\onlinetest.tex"
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (MiKTeX 2.9.6300 64-bit)
entering extended mode
LaTeX2e <2017-04-15>
Babel <3.9r> and hyphenation patterns for 72 language(s) loaded.
! Undefined control sequence.
<*> ...}\makeatother\HCode .a.b.c.\input C:\Users
\lbxxx\Desktop\Tex Testing...
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I can hit r several times and nothing at all comes out. Same basic thing for htxelatex.
Of course, the actual files I would like to be able to convert this way are much more complicated. Here would be a minimal example, this time including footnotes and bibliography (many thanks to moewe for much of this code):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage[fallback]{xeCJK}
\usepackage{xunicode-addon}
\setmainfont[Ligatures={Common, TeX}]{Times New Roman}
\setCJKmainfont[Scale=1]{SimSun}
\makeatletter
\newcommand\blx@unitmark{23sp}
\makeatother
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{chicago-notes.dbx}
\ProvidesFile{chicago-notes.dbx}[2016/07/24 extended name format for biblatex]
\DeclareDatamodelConstant[type=list]{nameparts}{prefix,family,suffix,given,cjk}
\end{filecontents*}
\begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib}
@book{zhaos,
title={A Nation-State by Construction: Dynamics of Modern Chinese Nationalism},
author={given=Suisheng, family=Zhao, cjk=趙歲升},
isbn={9780804750011},
year={2011},
address = {Stanford},
publisher={Stanford University Press}}
@book{ZhupoShihua,
author = {family=Zhou, cjk=周紫芝, given=Zizhi},
title = {Zhupo shihua},
titleaddon = {竹坡詩話},
series = {Yinying Wenyuange Siku quanshu edition},
year = {1985},
address = {Taibei},
publisher = {Taiwan shangwu yinshu guan}
}
@book{jim,
title={Lorem},
author={Smith, Junior, Jim},
year={2009},
address = {Stanford},
publisher={Stanford University Press}}
\end{filecontents*}
\usepackage[notes,strict,annotation,cmsdate=both,isbn=false, backend=biber]{biblatex-chicago}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}
% Based on definitions from biblatex.def
\newbibmacro*{name:cjk}[3]{%
\usebibmacro{name:delim}{#2#3#1}%
\usebibmacro{name:hook}{#2#3#1}%
\mkbibnamefamily{#1}%
\ifdefvoid{#2}{}{\bibnamedelimd\mkbibnamegiven{#2}}%
\ifdefvoid{#3}{}{\bibnamedelimd\mkbibnamecjk{#3}}}
\DeclareNameFormat{given-family}{%
\ifdefvoid{\namepartcjk}
{\iffirstinits
{\usebibmacro{name:given-family}
{\namepartfamily}
{\namepartgiveni}
{\namepartprefix}
{\namepartsuffix}}
{\usebibmacro{name:given-family}
{\namepartfamily}
{\namepartgiven}
{\namepartprefix}
{\namepartsuffix}}}
{\usebibmacro{name:cjk}{\namepartfamily}{\namepartgiven}{\namepartcjk}}%
\usebibmacro{name:andothers}}
\DeclareNameFormat{family-given}{%
\ifdefvoid{\namepartcjk}
{\iffirstinits
{\usebibmacro{name:family-given}
{\namepartfamily}
{\namepartgiveni}
{\namepartprefix}
{\namepartsuffix}}
{\usebibmacro{name:family-given}
{\namepartfamily}
{\namepartgiven}
{\namepartprefix}
{\namepartsuffix}}}
{\usebibmacro{name:cjk}{\namepartfamily}{\namepartgiven}{\namepartcjk}}%
\usebibmacro{name:andothers}}
\DeclareNameFormat{family-given/given-family}{%
\ifdefvoid{\namepartcjk}
{\ifnumequal{\value{listcount}}{1}
{\iffirstinits
{\usebibmacro{name:family-given}
{\namepartfamily}
{\namepartgiveni}
{\namepartprefix}
{\namepartsuffix}}
{\usebibmacro{name:family-given}
{\namepartfamily}
{\namepartgiven}
{\namepartprefix}
{\namepartsuffix}}
\ifboolexpe{%
test {\ifdefvoid\namepartgiven}
and
test {\ifdefvoid\namepartprefix}}
{}
{\usebibmacro{name:revsdelim}}}
{\iffirstinits
{\usebibmacro{name:given-family}
{\namepartfamily}
{\namepartgiveni}
{\namepartprefix}
{\namepartsuffix}}
{\usebibmacro{name:given-family}
{\namepartfamily}
{\namepartgiven}
{\namepartprefix}
{\namepartsuffix}}}}
{\usebibmacro{name:cjk}{\namepartfamily}{\namepartgiven}{\namepartcjk}}%
\usebibmacro{name:andothers}}
\DeclareFieldFormat[book]{title}{%
\mkbibemph{#1}%
\iffieldundef{titleaddon}{\isdot}{\nopunct}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{booktitle}{%
\mkbibemph{#1}%
\iffieldundef{booktitleaddon}{}{\nopunct}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{maintitle}{%
\mkbibemph{#1}%
\iffieldundef{maintitleaddon}{}{\nopunct}}
\DeclareFieldFormat[article]{title}{%
\iffieldundef{title}{}{\mkbibquote{#1}}%
\iffieldundef{titleaddon}{\isdot}{\nopunct}}
\DeclareFieldFormat{usere}{\mkbibparens{#1}}
\begin{document}
\cite{zhaos,jim,ZhupoShihua}
\cite{zhaos,jim,ZhupoShihua}\footnote{\cite{zhaos,jim,ZhupoShihua}}
\printbibliography
\end{document}
So, in short, is there any way to be able to continue to use biblatex with my cjk-materials but output to .html, .odt, .rtf, or .doc? I am not particular about the formatting of the final document, except that the text needs to be there and footnotes need to be footnotes. Please do not suggest converting the final pdf to word--I'd rather type in all my bibliographic material by hand than have to deal with all the headaches that causes.
Anyone who can solve this will have my eternal gratitude.
htlatex ... file.tex. I get errors at the cjk-font but I don't know if this is a bug or due to wrong use. We will have to wait for @michal-h21 to show the current state-of-the-art-call. – Ulrike Fischer May 03 '17 at 08:47htlatexprocesses file withlatex, so it certainly can't work. One should usemake4ht -xto compile XeLaTeX file. The issue with path in Windows is strange, I don't remember if I ever seen that. This might be somehtlatexin Miktex issue, I guess it shouldn't happen withmake4ht. Other than that, the file almost works, it needs only some fixes forxeCJKandbiblatex-chicago. I am working on that. – michal.h21 May 03 '17 at 09:57make4ht -x test-utf8on miktex I get an! I can't find file ${tex_file}'.error. With texlive 17 it compiles but stops at the first cjk char with a missing endcsname. – Ulrike Fischer May 03 '17 at 10:16make4htin Miktex is broken. I've updated in on CTAN last week, is it possible that Miktex uses this version? What doesmake4ht -vprint? – michal.h21 May 03 '17 at 10:41--- error --- Improper op while scanning font defs in postamble. I will have to check the unicode setup again. – Ulrike Fischer May 03 '17 at 11:59xeCJKpackage must be configured to work correctly, it fails by default. – michal.h21 May 03 '17 at 12:15