This repository demonstrates how to get a word (.docx) document from a LaTeX (.tex) source file, preserving tables, equations, and references.
(This demo uses make. So just type make on the command line. For a basic make demo, see https://github.com/leeper/make-example.)
There are a couple of strategies available here.
I like htlatex. I works well, preserves cross-references, section numbers, citations, and equations. Other options include installing additional software, which might work better, but you already have htlatex installed with your TeX distribution.
The build workflow - using make is two steps:
htlatex manuscript "html,fn-in"
bibtex manuscript
htlatex manuscript "html,fn-in"
htlatex manuscript "html,fn-in"
pandoc manuscript.html -o manuscript-htlatex.docxNote the second argument to htlatex, which delivers footnotes. For whatever reason they're not included in the HTML by default.
This workflow, in my experience, is the best one available. Basically, you're buiding an HTML file and using pandoc to convert the well-formatted HTML into a word document.
An alternative is to call pandoc directly on the .tex file, but the result misses a lot:
pandoc manuscript.tex -o manuscript-pandoc.docxNote that cross-references and citations are messed up. An advantage is that equations are actually typeset in Word, rather than being images of the LaTeX equations (as above). If you have an equation-heavy document, this may be the way to go. Basically figure out which is better to resolve manually - equations or cross-references.
Update: John McFarlane points out that the simple pandoc command is not appropriate. Instead, to preserve citations you need to specify a "citation style language" file and call a more verbose pandoc command. We'll use this CSL file from the official CSL repo.
pandoc manuscript.tex -o manuscript-pandoc.docx --filter pandoc-citeproc --csl american-political-science-association.cslThis gets references working quite well.