Is there a way to export XeLaTeX document into doc or similar?

Question

I need to export my .tex file to .doc. I tried to do it using

mk4ht ooxelatex file.tex

but got complete garbage as output. The file itself is quite simple - some text and a pair of images.

Is there a way to do it?

EDIT:

small example file

Pandoc should convert LaTeX to .docx — haven't tried it though. — slhck, Apr 23 '12 at 11:59
It will be very difficult to help you without knowing the document. TeX4ht has the capability to convert to OpenOffice format. It isn't guaranteed to work, but the reasons why it doesn't work can be complicated so without a sample document it's hard to help you further. — Andrew Stacey, Apr 23 '12 at 12:46
@Sveinung: Good tip. It's even more comfortable for everyone if you just paste the plain link. It will automatically be truncated and the question title will appear as a mouseover tooltip, hence users can see the question without having to click the link. — doncherry, Apr 23 '12 at 20:43
@slhck just tried pandoc, and it seems to be complaining about a lot of my LaTeX code! — Matthias B, Jun 20 '12 at 08:39

michal.h21 · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-23T13:56:28.473

The reason why compilation of your document fails is probably that tex4ht has some problems with xetex and fontspec, it is best to use pdftex or luatex as engines for use with tex4ht.

Best option for xelatex documents is to have some switch in the preamble, so you don't load problematic packages when you compile the document with tex4ht

Your sample document corrected:

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}

% NOTES
% Organization?
% Citations in text?

\makeatletter
\newcommand\compparbox[2]{%
\parbox{\dimexpr #1\relax}{#2}
}
\@ifpackageloaded{tex4ht}{
 \usepackage[russian]{babel} % for russian hypenation
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
}{

  % TEMPORARY - remove in final version!
  \setlength{\emergencystretch}{10em}

  \usepackage{xltxtra}
  \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine O}

  \usepackage[russian]{babel} % for russian hypenation
  \usepackage[top=20mm, bottom=20mm, left=25mm, right=25mm]{geometry}

  \pagestyle{empty} % remove page numbering


}
 \usepackage{setspace}
  \usepackage{enumitem}
  \setlist{nolistsep} % denser list
 \usepackage[colorlinks=true,urlcolor=blue,linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\singlespacing

  \begin{center}

    \large
    Заголовок
    \vspace{1em}

    \normalsize
    Автор \href{mailto:someone@somewhe.re}{\nolinkurl{<someone@somewhe.re>}} (Россия, Москва)

  \end{center}

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  \vspace{2em}
  \noindent
  \compparbox{\textwidth/2 - 0.8em}{
    \phantomsection
    \label{comp1}
    %\includegraphics[width=\textwidth/2 - 0.8em]{comp1-mne.png}
    Рис.1. Картирование ``сенсорного''\\ компонента.
  }
  \hspace{1em}
  \compparbox{\textwidth/2 - 0.8em}{
    \phantomsection
    \label{comp4}
  %  \includegraphics[width=\textwidth/2 - 0.8em]{comp4-mne.png}
    Рис.2. Картирование ``моторного'' \\ компонента.
  }  

  \vspace{2em}
  \subsection*{Список литературы}
  \begin{enumerate}
    \item \phantomsection \label{ikeda1992}
          Ikeda A., L\"{u}ders H., Burgess R., Shibasaki H. 1992. Movement-related potentials recorded 
          from supplementary motor area and primary motor area. Brain. V. 115. pp 1017-1043.
  \end{enumerate}

\end{document}

with \@ifpackageloaded{tex4ht} you can decide which package to load or not to load, when tex4ht is running. As first parameter include packages for use with tex4ht, as second packages for xelatex.

Compile with

mk4ht oolatex sample.tex "xhtml, charset=utf-8"

Note: Your parboxes are incorrectly transformed with tex4ht, I think you will need some custom configuration to get it working. But this needs some knowledge of odt xml structure

I almost got it to work, using your advice - the only problem left is the \parbox. What package should I import so the converter would recognize it? — Rogach, Apr 23 '12 at 13:45
Those parboxes compile just fine for me, maybe it is a version difference? — Rogach, Apr 23 '12 at 13:52
I would be just fine with the way they are outputted right now (just two big images one after another), but with the garbage (/2 - 0.8em/2 - 0.8em/2 - 0.8e) removed. Maybe I can define something like you defined in "compparbox", which would just silence it? — Rogach, Apr 23 '12 at 14:05
\renewcommand{\parbox}[2]{ #2 } still achieves the same effect - first argument is still printed for some reason. — Rogach, Apr 23 '12 at 14:13
Strange thing is that if I define that macro in the normal xelatex run, everything works as expected. — Rogach, Apr 23 '12 at 14:22
Ok, that much of clean-up I can certainly survive :) Thank you! — Rogach, Apr 23 '12 at 14:44

Is there a way to export XeLaTeX document into doc or similar?

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