XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?

2019-03-11 Thread Janusz S. Bień
Hi! I was asked to convert to Word a rather long paper submitted as the XeLateX PDF output (if accepted, the Word document will be converted to PDF by the editors...; I understand they work on the assumption that the reviewers don't know how to comment a PDF file). I had to do it already from t

Re: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?

2019-03-11 Thread Janusz Bień
Quote/Cytat - Michal Hoftich (pon, 11 mar 2019, 13:51:22): Hi Janusz, I had to do it already from time to time. I used different methods which were more or less cumbersome. Of course for the conversion I prepare a slightly different text (e.g. no hyphenation). It is possible to export La

Re: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?

2019-03-11 Thread Janusz Bień
Quote/Cytat - "Taylor, P" (pon, 11 mar 2019, 13:48:08): Janusz S. Bień wrote: Hi! I was asked to convert to Word a rather long paper submitted as the XeLateX PDF output (if accepted, the Word document will be converted to PDF by the editors...; I understand they work on the assumption that th

Re: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?

2019-03-11 Thread Michal Hoftich
Hi Janusz, > > I had to do it already from time to time. I used different methods which > were more or less cumbersome. Of course for the conversion I prepare a > slightly different text (e.g. no hyphenation). It is possible to export LaTeX to the ODT format using tex4ht. We fixed lot of issues r

Re: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?

2019-03-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
>Try this command: > >make4ht -uxf odt filename.tex The only problem is that if you are using TL2018 this command does not work: $./make4ht -uxf odt phil_fuzzy_comp.tex Output dir:      Compiler:   xelatex --no-pdf Latex options:   -jobname=phil_fuzzy_comp tex4ht.sty :    xhtml,,charset=utf

Re: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?

2019-03-11 Thread Michal Hoftich
> ./make4ht:62: attempt to index local 'formatter' (a nil value) > > It seems the reason is that some files are not included (I have read > this somewhere). Yes, the released TL 18 didn't ship some files, so make4ht was broken. It was fixed in the subsequent updates, so it should work in updated T

Re: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?

2019-03-11 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Mon, 11 Mar 2019 at 13:40, Janusz S. Bień wrote: > > I was asked to convert to Word a rather long paper submitted as the > XeLateX PDF output > > Before embarking on such a job again I would like to make sure there are > no new tools that I'm not aware of. Pandoc might theoretically support the

XeLaTeX under Win10

2019-03-11 Thread Apostolos Syropoulos
Hello, A friend of mine tried to use XeLaTeXunder Win10. He tried TeXLive 2018 andMikTeX. The problem is that the systemcannot find the fonts that are installed inthe system folder c:/windows/fontsIs this normal or is there a "hack" to solvethis problem?I am using Solaris... so I cannot providem

Re: XeLaTeX under Win10

2019-03-11 Thread Taylor, P
No problems using TL 2018 under Windows 7, Apostolos, but never tried Windows 10 (nor have I any wish to). Can you forward detailed error message(s), please ? Philip Taylor Apostolos Syropoulos wrote: Hello, A friend of mine tried to use XeLaTeX under Win10. He tried TeXLive 2018 and M

make4ht problem (was: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?)

2019-03-11 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Mon, Mar 11 2019 at 13:51 +01, Michal Hoftich wrote: > Hi Janusz, > >> >> I had to do it already from time to time. I used different methods which >> were more or less cumbersome. Of course for the conversion I prepare a >> slightly different text (e.g. no hyphenation). > > It is possible to exp

pandoc problem (was: XeLaTeX to Word/OpenOffice - the state of the art?)

2019-03-11 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Mon, Mar 11 2019 at 21:18 +01, Mojca Miklavec wrote: [...] > Pandoc might theoretically support the conversion, but I would not > know how good the results would be. > > Mojca On Mon, Mar 11 2019 at 22:21 -06, Dominik Wujastyk wrote: > I was going to mention Pandoc too. I use it increasingly