For my use case, I find the native Org to Odt export has several limitations:
1. No support for bibtex 2. I end up using quite a bit of LaTeX-specific stuff for formatting tables and graphics. All of that gets messed up when I do Org to Odt export. I agree, a robust org to odt/docx export would be very helpful. Vikas > On 29-Jan-2015, at 6:54 pm, John Kitchin <johnrkitc...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That could be an option. I was mostly looking at feasibility for org to > docx. There is no obvious advantage to go through markdown, I just had > some handy machinery in org-ref to export my cite links to the pandoc > format in that export. I have since figured out a simple way to insert > pandoc citations in org directly, and do an org -> docx in pandoc > directly. > > It looks like there are limitations all around. My sense is pandoc is > just a temporary solution until there is (one day) a full org export to docx > solution. I am not that experienced with the ODT export, so i don't know > what the state of citation support in those are. > > Luckily that is not something I need often, but a robust org to docx > export would be helpful to many! > > Vikas Rawal writes: > >>> >>> The conversion is not perfect, but it gets pretty far. Probably not far >>> enough to use for production except in the simplest cases. >>> >>> >> >> John, >> >> If your main objective is support for citations, why not go from Org to >> LaTeX, and then use Pandoc to convert from LaTeX to DocX? Is there an >> advantage in going through Markdown instead of LaTeX? >> >> In my experiments in going Org->LaTeX->(via Pandoc)DocX, I find Bibtex >> citations to work well. But there are other limitations of Pandoc (for >> example, lack of support for various LaTeX environments for making tables). >> >> Vikas > > -- > Professor John Kitchin > Doherty Hall A207F > Department of Chemical Engineering > Carnegie Mellon University > Pittsburgh, PA 15213 > 412-268-7803 > @johnkitchin > http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
