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Hi Robert and Michal,
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">On Jan 31, 2018, at 8:29 AM, Michal Hoftich <<a href="mailto:michal.h21@gmail.com" class="">michal.h21@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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Hi Bob,<br class="">
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On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 6:57 PM, Hueckstedt, Robert A. (rah2k)<br class="">
<<a href="mailto:rah2k@virginia.edu" class="">rah2k@virginia.edu</a>> wrote:<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">With a publisher’s permission I used xelatex to provide them copy, not<br class="">
camera-ready copy, for a long book that has Sanskrit in Devanagari and an<br class="">
English translation. Of course, the files I provided the publisher are pdfs.<br class="">
Now, the publisher wants them in doc. When they try to cut and paste from<br class="">
the pdf to doc, none of the conjunct consonants are recognized in the doc<br class="">
file. I used the velthuis-sanskrit mapping, and I am wondering if using the<br class="">
RomDev mapping would make a difference. I somehow doubt it. Suggestions?<br class="">
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You can try to compile your TeX file to HTML using tex4ht. The HTML<br class="">
code can be then pasted to Word. Basic command to compile XeTeX file<br class="">
to HTML is<br class="">
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make4ht -ux filename.tex<br class="">
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<div class="">This might work, but first I’d try using Acrobat Pro to save the PDF</div>
<div class="">directly into a Word document.</div>
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<div class="">This *can* work really well, especially when the PDF is enriched with</div>
<div class="">some tagging and the correct ToUnicode CMap resources for the fonts.</div>
<div class="">Try it and see if the result is reasonable.</div>
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<div class="">Alternatively, you can Export to HTML from Acrobat Pro; though I’d</div>
<div class="">expect that if the .doc export is no good, then the HTML export would</div>
<div class="">suffer from similar issues.</div>
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<div class="">It may even be that Adobe Reader can do these exports now,</div>
<div class="">as it is the same code-base.</div>
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Development version of make4ht can compile also to the ODT format,<br class="">
which can be opened directly in Word:<br class="">
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make4ht -ux -f odt filename.tex<br class="">
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It is possible that you will need some additional configurations for<br class="">
the correct compilation. It depends on used packages or custom macros<br class="">
in the document.<br class="">
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Best regards,<br class="">
Michal<br class="">
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<div class="">Hope this helps.</div>
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<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"></span>Ross</div>
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<div class="">PS. if you don’t have access to Acrobat Pro to try this,</div>
<div class="">can you send me a few pages. I’ll then try it for you.</div>
<div class="">If the result is good, that may be sufficient reason for you </div>
<div class="">to consider investing in a license. </div>
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Dr Ross Moore<br class="">
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