ox-pandoc - org-mode + org-ref to docx with bibliographies
Posted June 11, 2015 at 12:58 PM | categories: pandoc, orgmode, docx | tags:
Updated June 12, 2015 at 11:19 AM
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There is a new org-mode exporter: ox-pandoc . It seems like it makes it easy to convert org-mode to other formats, including docx, and including references in a bibliography. Let us try it out.
1 The setup
We have to modify org-ref org-ref modifies helm-bibtex to insert citation links. We have to undo that here to insert LaTeX style citations. We do that here so that the key binding for inserting references from org-ref inserts the LaTeX citations. This is necessary for pandoc to convert the reference citations to the bibliography in the docx format. If you do not use org-ref, this is probably not necessary.
(setq helm-bibtex-format-citation-functions '((org-mode . (lambda (x) (insert (concat "\\cite{" (mapconcat 'identity x ",") "}")) ""))))
org-mode | lambda | (x) | (insert (concat \cite{ (mapconcat (quote identity) x ,) })) |
We have to add ox-pandoc and require it.
(add-to-list 'load-path (expand-file-name "ox-pandoc" starter-kit-dir)) (require 'ox-pandoc)
2 The document
Now, for some text. Grindy wrote this nice paper on approaching chemical accuracy with density functional calculations \cite{grindy-2013-approac}. Two other interesting papers include these ones \cite{guldner-1961,guerrini-2008-effec-feo}.
An equation: \(e^x = 4\).
And a figure with a caption:
Figure 1: Make sure this is in your org-file.
3 Summary
This is better than what I have seen in the past. ox-pandoc has some options that might tailor the bibliography to specific formats. You lose some functionality of org-ref cite links by using raw LaTeX, but if that is not a deal breaker this might be a good way to go for some purposes.
Here is the word document that results from this file: test-doc.docx
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Org-mode version = 8.2.10