Export LaTeX format formulas to MS Word
Using Confluence and the Scroll Office Export software we are able to maintain and publish our technical documentation. Collaboration is the key word here, every projectteam member can edit content, together we created our technical manuals. In these manual we are using a lot of LaTeX format formulas. Using the Mathjax plugin we can create these formulas and they show up nicely on screen. Getting them in a Word document is not possible. The Confluence export and the Scroll Office export do not support this.
I was wondering if more people experience this? Ans what did you do to solve this problem?
Kor Molenmaker
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Hey Kor,
the problem here is, that the LateX plugin is rendering the output in the browser (with JavaScript). The Scroll Office (and the Scroll Exporters) run on the server side and doe not execute JavaScript there, so they do not output the formulas.
We are currently investigating a solution, in the meantime please watch/vote this issue: https://k15t.jira.com/browse/PDF-481
Best Regards,
-Stefan -
Hi Stefan,
Client-side rendering is ok and I am aware that these plugins render on the server. I have created a macro to export LaTeX formulas into PDF and that seems to work in standard confluence PDF export, but I do not know why it does not work in the MS Word export. The macro is very simple and uses mathtex.cgi on the server side. The idea is that the LaTeX formula is being replaced by an image. This image is added into the export. It works for PDF, but not for Word and I wonder why. I was hoping that this would work for Scroll Office export as well, but it did not.
Regards,
Kor
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