Re: Pandoc selectively transfers glyphs from LuaLaTeX to DOCX

[Sean Winslow <mrspot-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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John,

Thank you for the quick response, and for adding that! I currently have the 
release branch of pandoc installed from homebrew, but I will remove it and 
compile from the master branch late this evening to test out the solution.

Can you say more about what you're doing?  Are you 
converting this latex to some other format?  If so, 
which? 


I wrote a dissertation on Ethiopian scribal practices which uses a lot of 
LaTeX features (fig, subfig, pdfparcols, tikz, datatool, special 
diacritics, font-switching for Ethiopic, Arabic, greek). It has been 
accepted (with revisions) for publication, but I need to get the file into 
docx for the publisher, so that it fits the workflow they have for 
inDesign. Luckily, they do not want the images in, so I am going to write a 
macro that changes figures to the figure name and caption, and I realize 
all the parcolumns/tikz/datatool stuff is probably a complete loss and 
needs to be redone by hand, but there is so much Ethiopic text and 
transcribed Ethiopic that it would be a nightmare to replace it all by 
hand, so I am very keen to transfer that over automatically. After I 
recompile from the master branch, I will still be trying to figure out 
these issues:

1. As written, it is also highly-referenced, but labels do not seem to be 
transferring over--is there a procedure for making \label and \ref work, or 
do I need to fix every one by hand?

2. In LaTeX, I have a 
\renewcommand{\includegraphics}[2][]{%
    {(((\url{#2})))}% print file name in a small box with triple parens
}
which lists the name of the file and the caption. In the pandoc-created 
docx, the caption and the optional table of figures caption print twice, 
without the filename. Is there something wrong with the syntax of my 
renewcommand?

3. The Ethiopic text transfers over correctly, but since my main font 
(Brill) does not contain Ethiopic glyphs, I have a
\newfontfamily\ethiopicfont[Script=Ethiopic]{Abyssinica SIL}
set up. In the docx, I see blocks, which when I change the font by hand to 
Abyssinica, render correctly. What command do I need to pass to pandoc to 
get it to set the ethiopicfont in a different font?

BPJ,

I know nothing about filters in pandoc--what would you suggest as a 
starting place to learn more? Would these potentially help me with any of 
the issues above?

Thanks,

-Sean

On Saturday, July 22, 2017 at 12:37:26 PM UTC-4, Sean Winslow wrote:
>
> I am trying to convert a dissertation from LaTex to Word, in order to 
> comply with publisher requirements. Part of why I used LaTeX is my need for 
> complicated diacritics in transcriptions, which XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX and the 
> dblaccent package made easy. Now, when I use pandoc to output to docx, 
> certain glyphs are missing. See, for example, \b{q} in Maqala and \v{\d{C}} 
> in Chelaqwot:
>
>
> LuaLaTeX (or XeLaTeX) produces this:
>
>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Nto3OG7FE8c/WXN9zv4_J3I/AAAAAAAAB3k/D5NTrxzrD2cjsdAQ9cWQUUkFTZzQYoYuwCLcBGAs/s1600/screenshot_latex.png>
>
> But this is what I see in Word:
>
>
> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Rjn4Lnkaxx8/WXN9_oO77FI/AAAAAAAAB3o/aa-KxIii0jwM3zt0OO1PqI9RkIDu1TfQgCLcBGAs/s1600/screenshot_word.png>
>
>
> Here is my MWE: 
>
> %!TEX TS-program = lualatex
> %!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
>
> \documentclass[a4]{memoir}
>
> %packages
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{dblaccnt}
>
> \usepackage{savesym}
> \savesymbol{U}
> \savesymbol{T}
> \usepackage{semtrans}
>
> %newcommands
> \newcommand{\schwa}{ǝ}
> \newcommand{\mekele}{M\"{a}\b{q}\"{a}l\"{a}}
> \newcommand{\chelekot}{\d{\v{C}}el\={a}qwot S\schwa{}lasse}
>
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
> \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Brill}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> The two research locations visited were \mekele{} and \chelekot{}.\par
>
> \end{document}
>
> and the pandoc command I am using to convert it:
>
> pandoc test.tex \
>
>     --from=latex \
>
>     --to=docx \
>
>     --output=test.docx \
>
>     --latex-engine=lualatex \
>
>     --reference-docx=test_ref.docx \
>
>     -S \
>
>     -R
>
> The reference-docx is just the output, but changed to use Brill as the 
> font.
>
> Is there any way to have pandoc pass along the special diacritics I need? 
> Re-doing all of them by hand will be a nightmare, and is a lot of the 
> reason I am learning pandoc.
>

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