On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Jambunathan K wrote: > > Matt > > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 11:14 AM, Jambunathan K > wrote: > > > > Matt > > > I am *pretty confident* that the OpenOffice exporter can handle simple > text - headlines, paragraphs, lists - very reliably. > > How I tried reproducing the problem and failed: > > 1. I freshly cloned the repository. > 2. Started emacs without any customization. > "C:\Program Files\emacs-23.1.91\bin\runemacs.exe" --debug-init -Q > 3. M-: (setq org-odt-base-dir "~/src/oo/") RET > 4. M-x (load-file (expand-file-name "./contrib/odt/setup.el" > org-odt-base-dir)) > 5. C-x C-f desc_test_short_2.org > 6. I did a C-c C-e O. > 7. I am seeing that OpenOffice launches and opens the file > desc_test_short_2.odt without any complaints. > OK, I'm possibly seeing some improvement here. I logged into my server, which has no other org or emacs-related software installed. I followed your procedure precisely, with a fresh emacs23 install. Trying to export gives me the following errors: Loading /home/matt/src/oo/lisp/org-vm.el (source)...done Loading /home/matt/src/oo/lisp/org-w3m.el (source)...done Loading /home/matt/src/oo/lisp/org-wl.el (source)...done Loading /home/matt/src/oo/lisp/org.el (source)...done fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything. Org-mode version 7.3 Select command: Exporting... (New file) [3 times] interblock-initiate-R-buffer: Symbol's function definition is void: R Select command: Exporting... (New file) [3 times] interblock-initiate-R-buffer: Symbol's function definition is void: R t Select command: Exporting... (New file) [3 times] interblock-initiate-R-buffer: Symbol's function definition is void: R Auto-saving... ----------------------- the odt file doesn't end up being produced at all, presumably something about the R buffer (don't know why that would be). interestingly, on my laptop I simply cannot get the O and o menu items to show up in the export menu buffer. On this new machine, they only appear after I reload org-mode. Not sure why this is the cae, I suppose it could somehow be related. Like most people I have a fair number of emacs-relatedpackages installed on my laptop.... thanks again, best, Matt