docxwright

docxwright converts a LaTeX manuscript into an editable DOCX document without requiring Pandoc. It is intended for handing a LaTeX paper to co-authors and editors who work in Microsoft Word, and aims to reproduce the content and look of the LaTeX-compiled PDF as closely as a Word document can:

• Structure: title block (authors, affiliations, date), abstract, a table of contents (a real Word TOC field that Word can update with page numbers), numbered sections, unnumbered \section* headings, lists and page breaks. Included files (\subfile, \input, \include) are followed.
• Text: bold/italic/monospace/small caps, \verb, hyperlinks (\href, \url), LaTeX quotes, dashes, accents and special characters, simple user macros (\newcommand, \def) defined in the preamble or document.
• Math: inline formulas become formatted text (italic variables, real superscripts/subscripts, TeX-like spacing); anything beyond that (fractions, sums, roots, matrices, cases, ...) and all display equations become native, editable Word equations. Numbered equations get their number flush right.
• Cross-references: \ref, \eqref, \autoref/\cref are resolved to the numbers LaTeX would print (two passes, like LaTeX).
• Citations and bibliography: biblatex with the authoryear style is emulated from the .bib file(s): citation labels (\parencite, \cite, \textcite, \citeauthor, \citeyear, pre/postnotes, maxcitenames, ..., disambiguation letters such as 2018a/2018b), and a "References" list sorted and formatted like biblatex's standard drivers (fields cleared with \AtEveryBibitem{\clearfield{...}} are honoured).
• Tables: real Word tables with the column alignment of the LaTeX column specification, \hline/booktabs rules as borders, \multicolumn and \multirow as merged cells, and the caption above or below as in the source.
• Figures: every figure environment (TikZ, PGFPlots, \includegraphics, sub-figures, anything) is rendered by LaTeX with the document's own preamble and embedded as a high-resolution PNG (400 dpi by default) at the size it has in the PDF. Each figure is placed on its own page: a page break is inserted right after the text preceding the figure and after its caption, which sits below the figure.

Installation

pip install docxwright

Figure rendering requires a LaTeX installation (pdflatex; lualatex/xelatex are used automatically for documents that load fontspec/unicode-math) and a PDF rasterizer: pdftoppm (poppler-utils), Ghostscript or MuPDF's mutool. Without them the conversion still succeeds and figures are replaced by clearly marked placeholders. The document is compiled from the directory of the main .tex file, so relative \input/\includegraphics paths work as in LaTeX.

Usage

docxwright paper/main.tex -o paper/out/main.docx

Options:

Anything that cannot be converted faithfully (unknown commands, footnotes, unresolved references or citation keys, ...) is reported as a warning on stderr.

Limitations

• Pagination, fonts and float placement are not reproduced; tables stay where they appear in the source, figures get their own page.
• Citation styles other than biblatex authoryear are approximated with the author-year format; uniquename/uniquelist disambiguation is not emulated.
• Footnotes are rendered inline in parentheses.