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From: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm@gentoo.org>
Cc: bzg@altern.org, seb@debian.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org,
	davemarq@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: Location of OpenDocument style files should be configurable
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:36:18 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8162gzpdl1.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220.19946.360761.625682@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> (Ulrich Mueller's message of "Thu, 29 Dec 2011 12:24:26 +0100")

Hello Ulrich

> Hi,
> In Gentoo we have an issue with the location of the OpenDocument style
> files, reported to us in bug 396269 [1].

Makefile in org-7.8.02 is buggy and breaks the ODT exporter. Bastien, is
 likely to re-publish a version of org-7.8.x soon.

Lately, there has been some confusion around how and where OpenDocument
style files go. There have also been multiple bug reports surrounding
broken export.

> When org-mode is installed as a separate Gentoo package, its lisp
> files are installed in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/org-mode/.
> According to our policy, non-lisp files would go to
> /usr/share/emacs/etc/org-mode/. We would pass this as the "etcdir"
> parameter to "make install", so the odt style files would be installed
> in stylesdir = /usr/share/emacs/etc/org-mode/styles/. 

Org-7.8.x has been accepted in to Emacs-24.1 [1]. I have proposed that
the style files go as "c:/Program Files/emacs-24.0.92/etc/org/*.xml"
[2]. Note that under stock Emacs, the org package go under "org" subdir.

(locate-library "org.elc") => "c:/Program Files/emacs-24.0.92/lisp/org/org.elc"

So, will it be acceptable, if org-odt.el searches for styles file under
<wherever-org-odt.elc-is>/../../etc/org/. (For vanilla Emacs, this is
same as `data-directory'/etc/org. See C-h v data-directory)

This way the package structure under gentoo will parallel the structure
under stock Emacs.

I am copying Sebastien (the debian maintainer) and Dave (who fixed the
Makefile subsequent to 7.8.02) release. If there is consensus, I will
fix org-odt.el and also Makefile.

Side Note: I am little bit hesitant to make org-odt-styles-dir a
defcustom. Already there are defcustoms for org-export-odt-styles-file
and org-export-odt-content-template-file and making org-odt-styles-dir
will add needless confusion to the users.

Jambunathan K.

Footnotes: 
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-12/msg00607.html 
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2011-12/msg00571.html

> Now org-odt.el currently defines org-odt-styles-dir in a defconst,
> and it searches only in ../etc/styles/, ./etc/styles/, and ./etc/org/
> relative to lispdir. Obviously it cannot find the files in the Gentoo
> location.
>
> Now my question, could the defconst be changed to a defvar, so that we
> can specify the location in our site-start file? Or, preferably, could
> the etcdir specified in "make" command be honoured in the lisp code?
>
> Ulrich
>
> [1] <https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396269>
>
>

-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2011-12-29 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-29 11:24 Location of OpenDocument style files should be configurable Ulrich Mueller
2011-12-29 16:06 ` Jambunathan K [this message]
2011-12-29 16:56   ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-12-30  9:07   ` Achim Gratz
2011-12-29 16:56 ` Achim Gratz
2011-12-29 18:32   ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-12-30 19:53 ` Jambunathan K
2011-12-31  0:07   ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-01 18:35     ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-01 20:43       ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-02 14:10         ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-03  9:38           ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-03 10:20             ` Bastien
2012-01-03 14:59               ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-01-03 10:26             ` Bastien
2012-01-03 13:59               ` Ulrich Mueller
2012-02-24 11:01             ` Jambunathan K
2012-02-24 11:20               ` Jambunathan K
2012-01-02 22:11   ` Achim Gratz
2012-01-03 10:10     ` Ulrich Mueller

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