Re: [O] exporting zotxt or orgref links to HTML and ODF

[Vikas Rawal]

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 <address@hidden> 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
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