From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Martin Butz Subject: Re: Upgrade to org 7.9.3.: clock in/out and org-odt export Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2013 10:53:38 +0100 Message-ID: <50EE8FA2.9050908@mkblog.org> References: <50EC7D34.8010009@mkblog.org> <87d2xe53dd.fsf@gmail.com> <50EDC438.8000107@mkblog.org> <87ehhunm73.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: mb@mkblog.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37915) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtEpT-0004lX-3z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:53:45 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtEpR-0000RV-Or for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:53:43 -0500 Received: from [212.227.83.185] (port=52052 helo=mail.sym.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TtEpR-0000Qe-FS for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Jan 2013 04:53:41 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87ehhunm73.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi Jambunathan, thanks for the information about your name. So now I know how I can adress you - and not your father;) As to the other very detailed infos about org-odt-export: Right now I have some work to do, but will have a closer look probably next week... Thanks a lot Martin Am 09.01.2013 21:19, schrieb Jambunathan K: > Martin Butz writes: > >> Hello K. Jambunathan, >> >> (I guess Jambunathan is your sirname, but do not want to call you just >> "K"). > > No, don't do that :-). You will be addressing my father. > > Confusion is arises because of differences in naming across cultures. > > I live in India. In the state where I am from (Tamilnadu), we usually > have just a single component to the name. i.e., there is no First, > Middle or Last names and I really don't know what a "Surname" is. > > So "Jambunathan" is my given name. "K" is my Father's name that is > abbreviated to just the initials. > > People usually call me "Jambu". > >> one of the problems was my fault, I forgot to insert a >> "#+end_quote". After completed the missing comment, all went well. >> >> I encounter different problems, e.g. like an image link with missing >> source. > > Try to narrow it down and pass across a simple snippet to me. I will be > happy to fix it. You can also look at *Messages* buffer, you may get > some clues. > >> The exporter will not accept this. Also I had cases, where the >> export will work, but LibreOffice will crash trying to load the >> generated .odt-file. But I guess, this has nothing to do with org. > > LibreOffice crashes usually when XML files are malformed. > > If you don't have rnc files, (use M-x rng-what-schema RET while in an > XML file) then validation wouldn't catch errors. If you are running from > git, rnc files are installed for you and you can do the following right > within Emacs. > > 1. C-x C-f test.odt. Buffer will now be in archive-mode. > 2. RET on content.xml and/or any of the other XML files/ > 3. C-c C-n. nXML will tell you where validation has failed. > > This will give you clue on how to proceed further. It is quite possible > that ODT exporter creates corrupt files. > > You can also run the exported file through any of the OpenDOcument > validators in the cloud. They seem to come and go. So I will let you > google around, instead of providing any pointers. > > See following node in the manual > > (info "(org) Validating OpenDocument XML") > >> In another case the content.xml of the gererated .odt had some not >> closed elements (LibreOffice gave an error message), which I could fix >> and then repack the archive. > > You should report this issue. I will be happy to fix. > >> I now do at least have some means to cope with problems. Thanks for >> you help. > -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | G. Martin Butz, mb@mkblog.org, 0421 98749324, www.mkblog.org | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~