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From: Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: org-odt: command line options for soffice bug?
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:49:44 -0800
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On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Vinh Nguyen <vinhdizzo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was having issues exporting to a "doc" file with this in my init file:
> (setq org-export-odt-preferred-output-format "doc")
>
> After some debugging, it appears my "soffice" command takes a single
> dash (-), not double dash (--) for command line arguments.  When I
> change to
>
> "soffice -headless -convert-to %f%x -outdir %d %i"
>
> in org-odt.el, things seem to work.  I am running org-mode 7.9.3e on
> Emacs 24.1.50.1 and LibreOffice 3.3.4 on Ubuntu 11.04.  Not sure if
> this is specific to me or not, but it should be fixed in org-mode.
> Thanks!
>

Just checked LibreOffice on my Mac OS X, and it uses two dashes for
arguments.  Weird that LibreOffice on Ubuntu uses one dash.  Can
anyone else confirm?  I guess the emacs function should determine the
current OS to decide whether to use single or double dash for command
line arguments...

> -- Vinh