We convert your document to LaTeX. We convert all documents to LaTeX. Word2latex has been my ‘Latex tool’ for 5 separate purchases, and they. Convert 'Latex-tex file' to 'word' format. I have a paper written in Latex (tex file). I have a typical scientific manuscript in a LaTeX.tex file, and I need to convert it to MS Word.doc.
For my (word-loving) Thesis Advisor I always ran the.tex-Files through htlatex (as suggested by chl and Stefan). The resulting HTML-file can then be opened with Word and saved in the desired.doc or.docx Format. Since you've mentioned that you're on Linux, you might not have Word anyways, then you can also send the HTML file to the person doing the revisions, with instructions on how to open a.html and save as revised.doc. For not too complicated files (not including figures and delicate macros) I also had great results using the awesome.
And just as a snickering remark: In the long run, it might be good to learn your revisor some LaTeX skills, have some kind of revision system (SVN, Git, etc.) and work on the same repository (but that didn't work out for me either:). I've tried a number of them: latex2rtf, tex4ht, freepdf, AdobeExportPDF, and I used MS Word 2013 to convert from pdf to docx. Latex2rtf is only useful if you use standard math (no amsmath and similar package) and no tables. Basically, you are confined to converting a basic text document.
Tex4ht does, in my experience, pretty much the same job as latex2rtf. As soon as you insert a little math and some tables, the result is hardly usable. Freepdf does the job well - but it only converts 2 pdf pages for free. The name is a little misleading.
AdobeExportPDF comes up with the best result but there is no free version. MSWord2013 is not as polished as freepdf or Adobe's solution. Some tables will be converted to actual tables and others will be converted to png images. The same with equations - they are not converted to actual equations but to the closest symbols and sometimes to png images. Basically, all equations need to be rewritten in word. After years of trying and frustration I gave up and got myself a yearly license for AdobeExportPDF - which is considerably cheaper compared to freepdf.
I know, it's not directly out of latex but at some point that was not an issue for me any more. I simply needed something that does the job quickly and which minimizes my postprocessing. Which, btw., is needed in all of the solutions mentioned above. I would like to resurrect this question. There are actually two separate questions here. First is there a good way to produce.doc file from LaTeX?
The answer is probably yes if you work for Microsoft and you can see the source code for the rest of us no because it is binary locked format. The second question is if there is a good way to produce.docx files from LaTeX? Actually I think that correct answer should be yes with little bit work.
Namely.docx is just a zipped archive. If you unzip it you will see bunch of XML files. One of them keeps the content the others are essentially style files. Kodi na gta san andreas chtobi otkritj vse goroda pc. My understanding is that most publisher at this time keep permanent documents in XML format.
Professional quality converter LaTeX to XML do exist. The real question is how to extract enough information from LaTeX document to populate Microsoft XML style files. If I would have to put my bet that code probably can be written if it is not already written.
I gave up on pandoc for almost exactly the same reasons you listed. If you are set on using pandoc, the simplest solution may be to just identify environments and packages that cause trouble - and then not use them, or just type the offending stuff directly in to MS Word. I've had a fair amount of luck with going to word documents using latex2rtf to create an.rtf that then gets converted, rather than going through pandoc. As I wrote in, my solution has been to put a very tight cap on the packages that are used when creating a tex document that you know will be converted. This is because a lot of problems with conversion from.tex to.rtf are caused by optional packages and environments that are not supported. See for a demo of a class that gives you a file that can be converted with latex2rtf to.rtf and thus to.docx. Bonus: this class almost(!) gives you a tagged PDF that passes automated testing for tags (the fabled 508 compliance).