On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 22:00 +0000, Shelagh Manton wrote:
> On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:40:49 +0200, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 8:34 PM, Matt Price <matt.price@utoronto.ca>
> > wrote:
> > 
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I;m getting more and more used to using org for my own writing
> >> purposes, and love it.  But I still find it pretty difficult to work
> >> with word-processor users whoexpect to get a doument in .doc or .odt
> >> formats. I've just found odt2org
> >> (http://mantiel.wikidot.com/os:odt2org) which looks great for importing
> >> odt files into org; but my main concern right now is getting things
> >> from org-mode out into odt or doc.  May i ask what other people tend to
> >> do in this situation?  I I guess I could export to html, then import in
> >> Openoffice, then edit & save as odf, but this seems a little
> >> cumbersome.  If someone has a better solution I'd love to hear it.
> >>
> >>
> > Oh - and ther is also:
> > 
> > mk4ht oolatex
> > 
> > which converts LaTeX to odt.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Rainer
> > 
> Wouldn't the org-docbook package be suitable as there are docbook to odt 
> transformers (which makes sense as odt is a type of xml like docbook) 
> 
> http://open.comsultia.com/docbook2odf/ might be helpful.
> 
> Shelagh
> > 

thanks to everyone for their advice -- I'm going to try these all out &
if I have any constructive commetns I'll report them back.  It's a
little duanting for me, as a non-latex user, to try to figure out how to
get documentsl ooking about how I want them to -- the default output of
the latex export has way too much whitespace for my tastes -- but I
guess I hsould be able to figure those issues out somehow.  thanks
again!
matt