From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: Org -> OpenOffice/OpenDocumentText Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2011 19:42:51 +0530 Message-ID: <818vz0vjto.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87mxnhswqv.fsf@ubik.of1par.int.rtblw.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=39787 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pa7dO-00081s-9T for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:13:11 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa7dM-0007o6-S5 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:13:10 -0500 Received: from mail-gy0-f169.google.com ([209.85.160.169]:57901) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pa7dM-0007nz-Ph for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 09:13:08 -0500 Received: by gyd10 with SMTP id 10so2769318gyd.0 for ; Tue, 04 Jan 2011 06:13:07 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87mxnhswqv.fsf@ubik.of1par.int.rtblw.com> (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=22S=E9bastien?= Gross"'s message of "Mon, 03 Jan 2011 18:49:44 +0100") 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: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien?= Gross Cc: lennart.borgman@gmail.com, cdominik@newartisans.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, bzg@altern.org Sebastien > Hi Jambunathan, > > I am currently very interested in your work for converting Org files > into OpenOffice documents. Meanwhile you forked Org-7.3 for that. Thanks for your interest. > I was wondering if it is a big deal to make your project apart of Org > thus it could be used with any version of Org. I am not sure how to answer this question. I am inclined to ask why you have hesitation in upgrading to the new (or the next) Org version? To give a circuitous answer, org-odt.el has now new dependecies on org-parse.el and org-newhtml.el. All these files are new. IIRC, Only changes that I have made to existing org-mode files are in org-export.el and org-footnotes.el. These changes are trivial. === Long Story === OpenOffice exporter that I have been working on has undergone quite a bit of change since the last recorded message in this mailing list. I am CCing the mailing list as it will be of general interest. Initially org-odt.el was based on org-html.el [1]. Subsequently Lennart Borgman refactored out org-html.el in to a backend-agnostic parsing engine org-parse.el and a html-specific org-newhtml.el [2]. Given this development, I thought that the right thing to do would be to "port" my changes over to Lennart's parsing engine. I have ported most of my local changes to the new interface. As a result I have abandoned my old work-area [3] in favour of the new work-area [4]. I would like to make few cosmetic changes to my repository before making a formal announcement sometime early next week seeking alpha-testers for the OpenOffice exporter.. Footnotes ========= [1] Lennart's announcement http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-11/msg00238.html [2] My reasons for not going the refactoring route http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-11/msg00226.html [3] Old OpenOffice Workarea http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2010-11/msg00109.html Unfortunately it was "copied" as opposed to "git cloned" so stands abandoned. [4] New OpenOffice Workarea and a "potential release candidate" http://repo.or.cz/w/org-mode/org-jambu.git/ Lennart's original org-parse.el and org-newhtml.el can be found under ./contrib/odt My own enhancements to org-parse.el, org-newhtml.el and the "new" org-odt.el can be found in ./lisp/ directory Jambunathan K. > Thanks for your help. > > Regards.