On 12/17/2017 10:14 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: > On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Scott Randby <sran...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> On 12/15/2017 01:43 PM, Grant Rettke wrote: >>> Write it in Org. Export to Pandoc file pandoc-A. >>> >>> Export Pandoc file pandoc-A to Word file word-A. Send that to your >>> peers for review. >>> >>> Export Word file word-A to Pandoc file pandoc-B. >>> >>> Get the Word from your peers, the file with changes from their review, >>> word-C. Export it to pandoc-C >>> >>> Do a diff between pandoc-B and pandoc-C. Integrate the results into >>> your original Org file. >> >> I'm confused. My understanding is that Pandoc converts between file formats, >> so I don't understand what you mean by a Pandoc file. What is the file >> format of pandoc-A? >> >> Is this what you mean? >> >> Pandoc: Org -> word-A >> Pandoc: word-A -> pandoc-B.org >> Pandoc: word-C -> pandoc-C.org > > Pandoc has their own markup language "Pandoc Markdown". That is what I > meant by "Pandoc". And that was totally wrong in regards to your > question. Sorry my mistake. > > You said it right, yes. It makes it easy to diff the "reverse > engineered" Org fils to see what changed from the reviewers.
I appreciate the clarification. Your method is very useful to me since I frequently have to work with people who know nothing but Word and since LibreOffice doesn't deal well with some of the poorly formatted DOCX files I receive. I've been experimenting with some sample files, and your method works great. I know this is a lost cause, but I dream of the future in which document collaboration is done using only text files. Scott >
