Techinical question of this academic question: https://academia.stackexchange.com/questions/62400/advisor-likes-ms-word-i-like-latex
I have an issue with my Supervisor: he likes to write papers on MS Word and I like to write in LaTeX. We have had issues with editing and formating since it is dificult to do it while working on different platforms.
I have tried the following to try to convert from LaTeX source code to MS Word format:
- LATEX2RTF
- Pandoc
- https://www.pdftoword.com (PDF output from LaTeX)
But none of them give the desired output that I want:
https://www.ieee.org/documents/trans_jour.docx
Which is a 2-column IEEE format paper.
Does anyone has any advise on how to convert from LaTeX to Word efficiently?
Best Answer
Summarising my comments: use Word. There is no method which can do LaTeX to Word interconversion in any way that is going to work for collaborative editing. The reality is it will be easier for you to use Word than for your advisor to (fail to) use LaTeX, and you need your advisor to be involved. There are solutions that allow one-off conversions after a fashion, but as the underlying idea of a word processor and a typesetting system are different they are at best partial solutions for single use.