From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luis Anaya Subject: Re: Using HTML or ODF to get content from Org to Word Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:42:10 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:59980) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sq7IQ-0007Ip-1d for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:42:26 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sq7IO-00065h-UG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:42:25 -0400 Received: from blu0-omc1-s3.blu0.hotmail.com ([65.55.116.14]:65192) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sq7IO-00065O-RW for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:42:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: (emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org's message of "Sat\, 14 Jul 2012 12\:00\:20 -0400") 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-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org emacs-orgmode-request@gnu.org writes: > > I am a bit puzzled. I thought that using the ODF-exporter would be > the format of choice to get content from Org to Word. Why do you > guys prefer HTML? The following is my opinion why I prefer using HTML to ODF for transfer to Word, but there is no reason for not using ODF for transfer files. It is more a matter of personal taste than anything else. 1. Mature support for HTML import on Word. ODF import was included in Office 2007 as an option. But HTML support has been available since Office 2000. (probably since Office '98, but it's been a while since I used that one). If you do not have the ODF facility installed in Word or if you're stuck with an older version of Office then you have to convert to Word using Libre/Open Office. That's an extra step and more conversion errors to add to the final result. 2. Less nuances to worry about. HTML is clean and a plain ASCII format at the expense of size. I am not familiar with ODF's internal structure, but I've worked on the generation of MS Open Office XML documents at work. Even though it's an XML format, there are sometimes difference in the positioning of elemements when documents are created in Word vs when they are created through a program using the MSOOXML libraries. One issue I had during testing was the inclusion of images in which they get installed on a different nodes if the document is created through the .NET API. These causes images not to show up in LibreOffice or AbiWord to crash. However they render fine in Word. My 2 cents... -- Luis Anaya papo anaya aroba hot mail punto com "Do not use 100 words if you can say it in 10" - Yamamoto Tsunetomo