Re: How do I convert org to OpenOffice?

[Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 17:33:32 -0400
Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> wrote:

> > In any case, without much supporting evidence[1], I'd say that if
> > you are trying to get to OpenOffice this way, the road is probably
> > paved with thorns.
> >
> > Nick
> >
> > [1] I just tried a simple org->latex->oo transformation on Ubuntu
> > 8.10, with the default tex4ht distribution for this platform that
> > synaptic gave me: I tried for a few minutes without success. But I
> > am a complete ignoramus as far as OO goes, so it may very well have
> > been my error.\
> >
> 
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Charles Philip Chan <cpchan@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > It is not just one file and afaik, *none* of it is written in
> > > > Perl. Some of it is C, some of it is TeX, some of it is Java
> > > > (apparently: I haven't looked at tex4ht for some years and I
> > > > don't remember any Java in there before, but there is some
> > > > now), a large amount is just text config files.
> > >
> > > I didn't take a look at the code, but mk4ht is written in perl:
> > >
> > > ,----
> > > | ls -la /usr/share/texmf/bin/noarch/mk4ht
> > > | lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 2010-09-07 02:10
> > /usr/share/texmf/bin/noarch/mk=
> > > 4ht -> ../../../../share/texmf/scripts/tex4ht/mk4ht.pl
> > > `----
> > >
> >
> > Oh, OK, I stand corrected: there is *one* Perl file in there. The
> > rest is as I described it, except that there's also a ton of shell
> > scripts. This in particular is perhaps a little worrisome for Win32,
> > unless one is running cygwin. Not sure whether Vitton's notes
> > address this.
> >
> > In any case, without much supporting evidence[1], I'd say that if
> > you are trying to get to OpenOffice this way, the road is probably
> > paved with thorns.
> >
> > Nick
> >
<SNIP>

There was a thread on this a while back. One of the suggestions
was to export to XHTML. Edit the XHTML file by chopping off the initial
declaration, then import into OO. I have found that Abiword will import
directly the XHTML file w/o editing.

I have found that this works well with simple documents. Don't know
about complex things.

tex4ht contains a script, oolatex, that directly converts the tex file
to OO. At least on my Debian system, it is not in the execution path by
default.

HTH,
Alan


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