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From: Paul R <paul.r.ml@gmail.com>
To: windsor.10@osu.edu
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Exporting for word processors
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 09:33:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ab5iepxp.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cc5438d40905081210y7faa8d59m2bd379ac278da191@mail.gmail.com> (Jeffrey Windsor's message of "Fri, 8 May 2009 15:10:43 -0400")

Hi,

Jeffrey> Can anyone help me out? I suspect that docbook is the key, but
Jeffrey> I've tried to find an answer there and am flummoxed by the
Jeffrey> docbook documentation.

Indeed, you can use docbook and something like docbook2odf to convert to
something OpenOffice.org can read. You'll have to experiment, I really
hope this will work well because that's what docbook has been designed
for.

You can also directly write to ODT, I've done such an export filter for
emacs muse some time ago, I can't remember if I published it somewhere,
but basically it is really simple :

 - start OpenOffice and write some dummy text and apply paragraph style
   to them. Make sure you use every type of structure you will need
   later (lists, titles ...).
 - tweak your styles to suit your tastes
 - save file somewhere as template.odt
 - odt is a zipped directory, so unzip the file and look inside, you
   will find something like content.xml, read it carefully, so you will
   know how to write it later.

Now write an exporter that can be customized to use a given
« template.odt » file. It will first unzip this file, then replace
content.xml by a newly generated content.xml from your org file, then
zip back the whole directory and voila.

-- 
  Paul

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2009-05-12  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-08 19:10 Exporting for word processors Jeffrey Windsor
2009-05-08 20:03 ` Matthew Lundin
2009-05-08 23:04   ` Scot Becker
2009-05-09  6:55     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-05-09 11:56   ` Sebastian Titz
2009-05-09 15:48     ` Matthew Lundin
2009-05-09 16:37       ` Scot Becker
2009-05-12  7:33 ` Paul R [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-05-11  8:14 Giovanni Ridolfi

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