[Tex/LaTex] pandoc converting tex to docx with references – not enclosed in parentheses / brackets

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I am trying to convert a pretty basic latex file to docx format using pandoc and am having a slight issue with the in-text citation not being enclosed in parentheses ()

tex doc minimal example

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=1in]{geometry}
\usepackage{apacite}

\begin{document}
\section{Introduction}

\cite{hendrickson_resource_2000}

\end{document}

And the bib file looks like:

@article{hendrickson_resource_2000,
    title = {Resource use and environmental emissions of {US} construction sectors},
    volume = {126},
    issn = {0733-9364},
    number = {1},
    journal = {Journal of Construction Engineering and Management},
    author = {Hendrickson, Chris and Horvath, Arpad},
    year = {2000},
    pages = {38--44}
},

Using an APA citation style, such as: https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles/blob/master/apa-5th-edition.csl I would expect that the in-text citation would be:

(Hendrickson & Horvath, 2000)

…but instead it is:

Hendrickson & Horvath (2000)

I have tried multiple conversion paths, styles and command line options and am not getting any change in the in-text citation despite changes in the overall reference list / bibliography.

My current attempt is:

pandoc -o test.docx test.tex --bibliography References.bibtex --csl apa5.csl

How do I get the intended enclosed in-text citation?

Best Answer

Instead of \cite{hendrickson_resource_2000}, perhaps you could try \citep{hendrickson_resource_2000}?

See https://groups.google.com/d/msg/pandoc-discuss/wSdhT4GxEog/1vDHtEOwfUYJ for some possibly related info.

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Short answer: no.

Long answer:

The only ways an automated script can know that the output should contain the word "Proof" are:

1) This knowledge is hardcoded in the script. It knows about the meaning of some latex commands and environments (the via taken by pandoc)

2) It can run tex code and get the output (via taken by t4ht, for example)

The first approach is not flexible enough, since you can load packages which are not known by the script, and which define commands that will be ignored (in addition, your document can define your own commands too).

The second approach can be done via pdflatex followed by some "pdf to text" converter, or via latex followed by dvi2tty, or via tex4ht. In any case, it loses the original tex markup, and then is not appropiate if you want to keep the "code" of the math formulae.

Let's see an example. Consider the following document:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nopageno} % No page numbers
\usepackage{amsthm}

\begin{document}
\begin{proof}
This is a proof
\[
    \sum_{i=0}^\infty x^2
\]
\end{proof}
\end{document}

Running it through standard pdflatex you get:

If you run it through pandoc, you get the following .txt:
```
 This is a proof $$\sum_{i=0}^\infty x^2$$
```
in which you lost the word "Proof", and the final end-of-proof mark, but it keeps the formula markup.
If you run it through pdflatex and then pdftotxt you get:
```
Proof. This is a proof

∞

x2
i=0
```
which keeps the word "Proof", but completly messes the formula

If you run it through latex and then dvi2tty, you get:

Proof. This is a proof
                                1X
                                   x2
                                i=0

                                                                   |___|

Which is closer to the pdf output, but still loses the formula markup.

If you run it through tex4ht you get an HTML version of the document, which can be in turn processed by pandoc to get the following .txt:
```
Proof. This is a proof ∞ ∑ i=0 x2 \_\_
```

As you can see, none of the solutions is satisfactory.

[Tex/LaTex] TeX to DOCX via Pandoc with ACM template

Pandoc cannot use a template provided as a *.csl file to style its DOCX output.

If you want to get Pandoc using a specific set of styles, you need to create (or grab) another DOCX file containing these styles. Note, that the style names do need to conform to the standard names in the first place. (In the past I've succeeded to let it use non-standard style names in cases where one of the standard styles is set up to enforce another style, f.e. in "next paragraph"..).

The commandline option to add is --reference-docx=...

Also, be sure to use the very latest version of Pandoc. Its support for DOCX is very new, and evolving still very rapidly.

The command for Pandoc would be:

  pandoc sig-alternate.tex                \
       --from=latex                       \
       --to=docx                          \
       --biblatex                         \
       --bibliography sigproc.bib         \
       --output=sig-alternate.docx        \
       --reference-docx=my-reference.docx

One other hint: if the direct conversion is not satisfying you (there may be spots where the thing doesn't look right), you should proceed like this:

Convert the LaTeX to Markdown first (also with the help of Pandoc).
Edit the resulting Markdown (consult man pandoc_markdown and man pandoc to see what special options and extensions Pandoc supports).
Convert the improved Markdown sources to DOCX (don't forget to use --reference-docx=...)

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