From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: How do I convert org to OpenOffice? Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:59:42 -0400 Message-ID: <14934.1285793982@alphaville.usa.hp.com> References: <87hbh85tev.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> <878w2k5r8b.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> <10354.1285789401@alphaville.usa.hp.com> <87sk0sux62.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58700 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P13kf-0004sn-H7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:59:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P13ke-0003kD-BP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:59:45 -0400 Received: from g6t0186.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.63]:12028) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P13ke-0003jz-5m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:59:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: Message from Charles Philip Chan of "Wed, 29 Sep 2010 16:12:05 EDT." <87sk0sux62.fsf@MagnumOpus.khem> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Charles Philip Chan Cc: Lennart Borgman , nicholas.dokos@hp.com, Org Mode Charles Philip Chan wrote: > Nick Dokos writes: > > > It is not just one file and afaik, *none* of it is written in > > Perl. Some of it is C, some of it is TeX, some of it is Java > > (apparently: I haven't looked at tex4ht for some years and I don't > > remember any Java in there before, but there is some now), a large > > amount is just text config files. > > I didn't take a look at the code, but mk4ht is written in perl: > > ,---- > | ls -la /usr/share/texmf/bin/noarch/mk4ht > | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 2010-09-07 02:10 /usr/share/texmf/bin/noarch/mk= > 4ht -> ../../../../share/texmf/scripts/tex4ht/mk4ht.pl > `---- > Oh, OK, I stand corrected: there is *one* Perl file in there. The rest is as I described it, except that there's also a ton of shell scripts. This in particular is perhaps a little worrisome for Win32, unless one is running cygwin. Not sure whether Vitton's notes address this. In any case, without much supporting evidence[1], I'd say that if you are trying to get to OpenOffice this way, the road is probably paved with thorns. Nick [1] I just tried a simple org->latex->oo transformation on Ubuntu 8.10, with the default tex4ht distribution for this platform that synaptic gave me: I tried for a few minutes without success. But I am a complete ignoramus as far as OO goes, so it may very well have been my error.