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Workflow for converting LaTeX into Open Office / MS Word Format
I am a scientist and an (almost) average Windows 7 user. I like to use LaTeX (MikTeX with Texmaker) to write documents that do not go for a peer-review. Unfortunately, LaTeX is not very commonly used in my field of science. I have been writing my manuscripts in MS Word, because my coauthors can't use the MS Word's Track Changes feature on pdf files.
Yet, I haven't given away the dream of writing also my manuscripts with LaTeX. So far I have been trying to find an efficient way to convert my documents to .doc format without a success. I am aware of many treads (1, 2, etc) discussing about this topic, but yet there seems to be a lack of an efficient solution for me. I have been trying to use Pandoc and htlatex. Both of them have managed to convert some features, but not all of what I need (natbib seems to be a major problem). I can't believe that there wouldn't be a solution for this, since the Open Source world is full of brilliant solutions nowadays. Thus I would like to ask help in making a workflow for converting this Latex document, which includes features from an average manuscript, into .docx format:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[sort]{natbib}
\bibliographystyle{authordate1}
\usepackage{setspace}
\setstretch{2}
\usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
\usepackage{lineno}
\usepackage{natbib}
\usepackage{authblk}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,
linkcolor=blue]{hyperref}
\title{This is a manuscript}
\author[1]{John Rambo}
\author[1,2]{Face Macfaen}
\author[3]{Pure Animal}
\affil[1]{Institute of Handicapped Maniacs}
\affil[2]{Cap headed taxi drivers}
\affil[3]{University of Gottemham, UK}
\date{\today}
% Define some names
\def\GM{{\it Gadus morhua}}
\begin{document}
\maketitle
\section*{Abstract}
We did some math\footnote{Which was borrowed from a Pandoc example, of course}
\[
\phi_n(\kappa) =
\frac{1}{4\pi^2\kappa^2} \int_0^\infty
\frac{\sin(\kappa R)}{\kappa R}
\frac{\partial}{\partial R}
\left[R^2\frac{\partial D_n(R)}{\partial R}\right]\,dR
\]
We found out nothing, but that's how science is sometimes. We also cited a lot to pretend that we know something. \citet{Medina-Elizalde2012} talks about a collapse. R \citep{Team2011} is really the coolest program. \LaTeX does not work for manuscript writing, because some co-authors want to use track changes in MS Word.
\section*{Introduction}
\linenumbers
Plagiarized text: Pandoc is a \href{http://www.haskell.org/}{Haskell} library for
converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool
that uses this library. It can read
\href{http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/}{markdown} and
(subsets of) \href{http://redcloth.org/textile}{Textile},
\href{http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/introduction.html}{reStructuredText},
\href{http://www.w3.org/TR/html40/}{HTML}, and
\href{http://www.latex-project.org/}{LaTeX}; and it can write plain
text, \href{http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/}{markdown},
\href{http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/introduction.html}{reStructuredText},
\href{http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/}{XHTML},
\href{http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/}{HTML 5},
\href{http://www.latex-project.org/}{LaTeX} (including
\href{http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/macros/latex/contrib/beamer}{beamer}
slide shows), \href{http://www.pragma-ade.nl/}{ConTeXt},
\href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich\_Text\_Format}{RTF},
\href{http://www.docbook.org/}{DocBook XML},
\href{http://opendocument.xml.org/}{OpenDocument XML},
\href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument}{ODT},
\href{http://www.microsoft.com/interop/openup/openxml/default.aspx}{Word
docx}, \href{http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/}{GNU Texinfo},
\href{http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Formatting}{MediaWiki markup},
\href{http://www.idpf.org/}{EPUB},
\href{http://redcloth.org/textile}{Textile},
\href{http://developer.apple.com/DOCUMENTATION/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man7/groff\_man.7.html}{groff
man} pages, \href{http://orgmode.org}{Emacs Org-Mode},
\href{http://www.methods.co.nz/asciidoc/}{AsciiDoc}, and
\href{http://www.w3.org/Talks/Tools/Slidy/}{Slidy},
\href{http://paulrouget.com/dzslides/}{DZSlides}, or
\href{http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/s5/}{S5} HTML slide shows. It can
also produce \href{http://www.adobe.com/pdf/}{PDF} output on systems
where LaTeX is installed. (Taken from Pandoc manual).
\section*{Material and Methods}
\GM~ is a cod.
\section*{Results}
Table \ref{numbers} shows more of this boring stuff, but that's how science often is. Figure \ref{figure} is a pdf challenge for Pandoc. If it works, I'll eat my hat.
\begin{figure}[h!]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=.7]{figure.pdf}
\caption{Figure shows some dull scientific stuff that confuses Pandoc. It's made with R and imported in pdf format. X-axis has unit of $\mu m \ s^{-1} $}
\label{figure}
\end{figure}
\newpage
\bibliography{example}
\section*{List of tables}
\input{numbers.tex}
\end{document}
Here is numbers.tex, which is needed to run the code.
% latex table generated in R 2.12.1 by xtable 1.5-6 package
% Sun May 29 13:02:18 2011
\begin{table}[ht]
\begin{center}
\caption{Distribution of samples over year, stage, age, sex and month}
\begin{tabular}{rrrrrrrrrrr}
\hline
& 1997 & 1998 & 2004 & 2005 & 2006 & 2007 & 2008 & 2009 & 2010 & Total \\
\hline
1 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 7 & 15 & 35 & 16 & 73 \\
2 & 28 & 11 & 34 & 138 & 102 & 50 & 37 & 29 & 85 & 514 \\
3 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 2 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 2 \\
4 & 28 & 11 & 34 & 138 & 102 & 57 & 52 & 64 & 101 & 587 \\
5 & 28 & 7 & 26 & 125 & 58 & 55 & 40 & 62 & 73 & 474 \\
6 & 0 & 3 & 5 & 8 & 42 & 2 & 11 & 2 & 28 & 101 \\
7 & 0 & 1 & 3 & 5 & 2 & 2 & 1 & 0 & 0 & 14 \\
8 & 28 & 10 & 31 & 133 & 100 & 57 & 51 & 64 & 101 & 575 \\
9 & 4 & 2 & 14 & 43 & 27 & 28 & 20 & 7 & 40 & 185 \\
10 & 0 & 3 & 5 & 8 & 42 & 2 & 11 & 2 & 28 & 101 \\
11 & 10 & 5 & 11 & 71 & 19 & 24 & 12 & 11 & 29 & 192 \\
12 & 14 & 1 & 4 & 16 & 14 & 5 & 9 & 44 & 4 & 111 \\
13 & 14 & 10 & 30 & 122 & 88 & 54 & 43 & 20 & 97 & 478 \\
14 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 2 & 2 & 0 & 9 & 13 \\
15 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 0 & 5 & 9 & 11 & 5 & 30 \\
16 & 21 & 8 & 24 & 98 & 93 & 25 & 31 & 46 & 57 & 403 \\
17 & 7 & 3 & 5 & 38 & 9 & 25 & 10 & 7 & 28 & 132 \\
18 & 0 & 0 & 5 & 2 & 0 & 2 & 0 & 0 & 2 & 11 \\
19 & 28 & 11 & 29 & 136 & 102 & 57 & 52 & 64 & 99 & 578 \\
\hline
\end{tabular}
\label{numbers}
\end{center}
\end{table}
Here is the bibliography (example.bib):
% This file was created with JabRef 2.7.2.
% Encoding: Cp1252
@ARTICLE{Medina-Elizalde2012,
author = {Medina-Elizalde, M. and Rohling, E. J.},
title = {Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Related to Modest Reduction
in Precipitation},
journal = {Science},
year = {2012},
volume = {335},
pages = {956-959},
number = {6071},
endnotereftype = {Journal Article},
issn = {0036-8075 1095-9203},
shorttitle = {Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Related to Modest Reduction
in Precipitation}
}
@MISC{Team2011,
author = {R Development Core Team},
title = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},
howpublished = {R Foundation for Statistical Computing},
year = {2011},
endnotereftype = {Electronic Source},
shorttitle = {R: A Language and Environment for Statistical Computing},
url = {http://www.R-project.org}
}
Here is the figure (figure.pdf)
Ok, I have tried several of these options. Here is a list what some of these multiple options given here do and do not convert (please edit, if you find mistakes / additions):
Pandoc
Converts
- Math
- Text
- Headings
Does not convert
- Tables
- Pdf figures
- natbib references
- Hyperlinks and cross references
- Author list
GrindEQ
Converts
- Math
- Tables
- Cross-references
- Text
- Headings
Does not convert
- \maketitle (with author list)
- Pdf figures
- Url's
- natbib reference list
Adds unnecessary space after special commands and url's
Adobe Acrobat X Pro
Converts
- Almost everything
Does not convert
- Hyperlinks (but they are really not needed either)
- Maths (or does convert them, but not perfectly)
Best option so far, but makes the font look weird in Word. I can't find a way changing it to normal.
PDF annotation
The community seems to think that this is by far the best option. I do agree, but as said some of the more experienced coauthors insist to have their doc version. Thus this is not a solution for this question. Mendeley was suggested as the best pdf annotation / reference manager program. If you haven't heard about this program, go and check it out. It seems very promising.
\linespread{2}with\usepackage{setspace} \setstretch{2}; otherwise, your tabular material will look just awful. – Mico Apr 24 '12 at 13:05citet. – qubyte Apr 24 '12 at 15:15