How to export my document to a Microsoft word doc? #2561
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Hi, l am curious about whether l can export my document on Typst to a Microsoft Word Docs. The only option about export l see is export to a pdf. |
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You cannot, but you can use pandoc to convert it. It'll be imperfect though. |
Thanks. That maybe inconvenient. However, I am still wondering whether Typst doesn't support 'export to Microsoft word docs' function. 😂 |
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Typst itself does not support exporting documents as MS Word Pandoc, however, does include a feature to convert Typst documents to Word |
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Probably pandoc produces a cleaner Word file w.r.t to the content, while PDF -> Docx produces a word file that is visually more like the original Typst document. |
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pandoc resume.typ -o resume.docx
"resume.typ" (line 1, column 2):
"/home/jgart/.cache/typst/packages/preview/basic-resume/0.2.8/src/lib.typ" (line 6, column 2):
"/home/jgart/.cache/typst/packages/preview/basic-resume/0.2.8/src/./resume.typ" (line 1, column 2):
"/home/jgart/.cache/typst/packages/preview/scienceicons/0.1.0/index.typ" (line 2, column 18):
unexpected "`"
expecting "//", "/*", "none", "auto", "true", "false", "0b", "0x", "0o", digit, ".", "\"", "let", "set", "show", "if", "while", "for", "import", "include", "break", "continue", "return", "(", "$", "<", "{" or "["
error: Recipe `docx` failed on line 11 with exit code 64 |
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@jgarte please report this as a pandoc bug if you haven't already, assuming that the Typst code is valid and your pandoc is updated. |
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Pandoc and Typst code is valid and up to date on Arch Linux. I can produce the PDF perfectly. Will report a bug as well to Pandoc but just wanted to let people know here that the above does not work as of yesterday. |
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@jgarte As of this writing the pandoc-cli package in Arch Linux official repos is several versions behind (due to complications with new versions of Haskell not building other Arch packages). If you are using the Typst output or other things that have changed in the most recent releases you can run the pandoc-bin package from the AUR instead to get the latest version. |
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In case someone is looking into this in the future, I've found some more options. |
Typst itself does not support exporting documents as MS Word
.doc/.docxfiles. That format is not well suited for sharing documents and it is difficult to export already fully formatted, laid out and typeset documents to it. It is a format meant for editing, after all.Pandoc, however, does include a feature to convert Typst documents to Word
.docx(not.docthough). Beware that styling and certain text objects will display differently or get lost entirely after that export. It is a very much imperfect conversion.See Installing pandoc for information on installing it. The command to convert a document is simply
pandoc main.typ -o main.docx.