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Skriptr exports your document in three formats, PDF (LaTeX), DOCX (Word) and Markdown (.md), from the Export panel beside your document. Citations and bibliography come with it in all three.

Which format should I pick?

PDF (LaTeX) is the one you hand in. Your document is typeset through LaTeX, which is what gives it proper academic typography: real page layout, consistent spacing, a bibliography formatted to your citation style. Pick it when the output is final and nobody needs to edit it after you.

DOCX (Word) is for when someone else has to work on it. A supervisor who comments in Word, a co-author who doesn’t use Skriptr, a submission portal that demands .docx. You get an editable document rather than a finished artefact.

Markdown (.md) is plain text with your structure intact. Pick it when the destination is another tool: a static site, a repository, a different editor, your own archive.

What carries over?

Your text, headings and structure, plus citations and a bibliography in whichever style the document is set to. Change the style before exporting rather than after, since the export reflects the setting at the moment you run it.

The Export panel also lets you attach appendices, including files from your library, so supporting material ships with the document instead of in a second email.

What should I check before handing it in?

Export converts between genuinely different formats, so give the output a read before it goes anywhere that counts. Worth a look:

  • Complex layout. Wide tables, figures placed just so, anything where position carries meaning. Each format resolves layout its own way, and the busier the page, the more they diverge.
  • Your bibliography. Every work you cited, present and complete. An entry missing a required field in the app is missing it in the export too, and the References list flags those, so fix them there first.
  • Page and section breaks, if your institution is strict about where chapters start.
  • The first and last page, where formatting problems like to surface.

If an export fails rather than looks wrong, the panel says what went wrong. LaTeX is the most particular of the three, because it’s doing real typesetting, so it’s the one most likely to object to something unusual in the document.

Where do I go next?

Still stuck?

If an export is dropping something or failing repeatedly, get in touch and say which format and what’s missing. That’s usually enough for us to reproduce it.