Revision Letter to Word

[jgeller112]

Is there anything in the works that will allow knitting to a Word document?

[crsh]

Hi there, I'm afraid, at this point, it's not a priority for me. I'd be more than happy to review a pull request, however, which proposes such an extension. The first thing, that would be required, is a Word-template file with appropriate styles that mirror those that TeX currently produces. Should you be interested in working on this, I'd gladly provide further guidance.

[conig]

I did docx and txt versions outputs for a spin-off package.

This is the docx template I used: response_letter_template.docx

One thing I found challenging was replacing the latex \RC tags using lua. So instead I modified the asis markdown engine to produce the needed markdown outputs for all three formats.

https://github.com/conig/revise/blob/main/R/process_chunks.r

E.g.

```{asis} Reviewer comment ```

becomes \RC{Reviewer comment} for pdf. becomes -\nRC:\nReviewer comment for txt; and, **RC: Reviewer comment** for docx.

Examples outputs from that package: docx output.docx text example.txt pdf example.pdf

Feel free to use the docx template. I'm also happy to do a pull request if you want my hacking the asis engine solution (which I'm guessing you don't!). But there is the advantage that using a code engine to tag reviewer comments results in less latex and shades the reviewer's question in rstudio making it stand out:

E.g.:

[crsh]

That looks really promising. I think using fenced div or block syntax would be a very pandoc and more versatile evolution for the current LaTeX approach. I've used this to create multi-language documents in the past and it was quite convenient to work with in Lua. I'm sorry I never got around to responding to your e-mail. I'll try to take a closer look at your package as soon as I can. I'm still interested in joining forces on this (either within papaja or a separate package).