From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: edgar@openmail.cc Subject: Exporting ODT to Org [was Re: General advice beyond Org] Date: Sun, 20 May 2018 04:56:32 +0000 Message-ID: <95c864b38f22f6ebd27c75beb4673a40@openmail.cc> References: <7dc580d0ea76c21328dc586ffadb5499@openmail.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38029) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKGOt-0001IZ-Vd for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2018 00:56:56 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKGOq-0002mH-Su for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2018 00:56:56 -0400 Received: from onethreetwo.vfemail.net ([199.16.11.132]:37818 helo=vfemail.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fKGOq-0002lv-LY for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 20 May 2018 00:56:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: 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" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On 2018-05-20 01:24, Samuel Wales wrote: > perhaps we can start thinking about improving registration between > formats? I don't really know what this means. > if you export org [you posted to org mailng list] to a foreign format, > you want your collaborator to be able to edit, save, send back without > raising a sweat. Not really, although it would be nice--and possibly titanic to do. > now you have to integrate the changes. you want to do this without > annoyance. > > suppose you export comments in the foreign format that contain the > equivalent of persistent markers. you might or might not be willing > to put org id or custom id on every heading, but there might be > workarounds that are not so intrusive. maybe your source can contain > comments with markers. dunno. Every great project had to start somewhere (this sounds like that). However, if I am going to devote time to such a gigantic task, I would rather spend it trying to convert others to free software rather than doing favours to a closed format. I am not saying that it wouldn't be nice to have it. > if your exported document is a subtree within a huge org file that you > edit all the time, registration allows your software to identify that > subtree, so you're not trying to change anything outside that subtree. > that alone is a win. This sounds like a project for people in LibreOffice or Pandoc. I think I will contact them to see if they are interested. > > but maybe we can do more. the markers can register sections or even > paragraphs if you're doing intensive collaboration. the tricky part > might be getting standard tools to understand that the mapping of > markers takes precedence over everything else. Yes, big project. > > details of this handwavey and possibly impossible brainstorm are left > as an exercise for the reader. LooooL! you remind me of books with notes such as "after deriving the equation one arrives to the following expression" :P ! Thank you. ------------------------------------------------- ONLY AT VFEmail! - Use our Metadata Mitigator to keep your email out of the NSA's hands! $24.95 ONETIME Lifetime accounts with Privacy Features! 15GB disk! No bandwidth quotas! Commercial and Bulk Mail Options!