From: Brandon Taylor <donnie126_2002@hotmail.com>
To: "gmauer@gmail.com" <gmauer@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Export Org mode files to (gag, barf) MS Office?
Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:25:16 -0500 [thread overview]
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Okay. Well, I've gone ahead and installed LibreOffice, which took care of the "missing 'soffice'" problem, but like a frustrating game of Whac-A-Mole, another problem popped up. Now I'm left high and dry as to what might have happened, because after adding the location of soffice.exe in my Windows PATH environment variable, I get the following output:
Executing soffice --headless --convert-to odt --outdir "c:/Users/donni/OneDrive/Documents/" "c:/Users/donni/OneDrive/Documents/belvoire.odt"
Export to c:/Users/donni/OneDrive/Documents/belvoire.odt failed
with absolutely no rhyme or reason as to what went wrong.
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On Jun 26 2021, at 5:30 pm, George Mauer <gmauer@gmail.com> wrote:
> For anyone who has never tried it, I'll add that the open office formats are an absolute beast to export to. I can't say for sure about docx but I've done my time building a PowerPoint exporter (on top of Microsoft provided ooxml libraries even). It is complex enough that I'm not even sure such an exporter's maintenance is possible without a full time dedicated team
>
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2021, 17:17 Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com (mailto:theophilusx@gmail.com)> wrote:
> >
> > Brandon Taylor <donnie126_2002@hotmail.com (mailto:donnie126_2002@hotmail.com)> writes:
> > > I know we’re not supposed to really even TALK about proprietary software in FOSS communities like this one, but I can’t help but wonder if someone
> > > might consider making (an) Emacs plugin(s) that allow(s) a user to export Org mode files to Microsoft Office file formats such as .docx, .xlsx and the
> > > like? Or is/are there already (a) plugin(s) in the MELPA that can do this?
> > >
> >
> > I don't think you will ever see full proprietary support for MS Office
> > file formats. In addition to the philosophical issues, there are also
> > practical constraints. As these formats are closed proprietary formats
> > owned by MS, they can be changed at will and without notice by MS, which
> > creeates maintenance problems, plus there is the risk you may run foul
> > of MS copyright or patent restrictions and you have the added overhead
> > of having to work with a format which is not openly documented.
> >
> > Probably the best you can hope for is support for open standards which
> > are also supported by MS Office. For example, ODT, CSV and maybe XML.
> > Unlike native MS formats, such open formats are likely to be even more
> > accessible (such as by other office like products) and last longer
> > because they are not based on some version of a proprietary format which
> > may arbitrarily change in the future.
> >
> > --
> > Tim Cross
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-06-27 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-26 14:44 Export Org mode files to (gag, barf) MS Office? Brandon Taylor
2021-06-26 14:54 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2021-06-26 14:56 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2021-06-26 14:57 ` Brandon Taylor
2021-06-26 15:00 ` Bruce D'Arcus
2021-06-26 15:29 ` Brandon Taylor
2021-06-26 15:49 ` Rob Sargent
2021-06-26 16:27 ` Brandon Taylor
2021-06-26 19:18 ` tomas
2021-06-26 19:49 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-06-26 20:12 ` Libre vs Open Office [was: Export Org mode files to (gag, barf) MS Office?] tomas
2021-06-27 19:38 ` Marcin Borkowski
2021-06-26 19:07 ` Boo Hiss ;-) " tomas
2021-06-26 15:04 ` Export Org mode files to (gag, barf) MS Office? John Kitchin
2021-06-26 15:15 ` Juan Manuel Macías
2021-06-26 15:18 ` glyn
2021-06-26 21:46 ` Tim Cross
2021-06-26 22:30 ` George Mauer
2021-06-27 0:25 ` Brandon Taylor [this message]
2021-06-27 4:05 ` Tim Cross
2021-06-27 21:08 ` Brandon Taylor
2021-06-27 22:38 ` Tim Cross
2021-06-28 1:48 ` Brandon Taylor
2021-07-01 8:28 ` Karl Voit
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2021-06-27 16:13 emanuel.charpentier
2021-06-27 16:17 ` Samuel Banya
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