From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Torsten Wagner Subject: Re: Video showing Jambunathan's ODT exporter Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 17:02:41 +0900 Message-ID: <4EB39C21.4010707@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:44953) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMEjd-0001dB-V1 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:02:46 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMEjc-0007G8-VF for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:02:45 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f169.google.com ([209.85.161.169]:52861) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RMEjc-0007G2-Sk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 04:02:44 -0400 Received: by ggnh4 with SMTP id h4so2567698ggn.0 for ; Fri, 04 Nov 2011 01:02:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: 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: Herbert Sitz Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Hi, > This is some seriously cool functionality for Org that deserves wider exposure. > Jambunathan's done a great job. Yep I tried it a few days ago and the results were nearly perfect. > It's obviously not for everyone; I'm sure some Org users have no need for > documents in a word processor and steer as far away as possible. Others may > love it, though, and it could potentially bring more users to Org community. Well it becomes particular important if it comes to collaboration with MS-Office people. I can write my stuff in org and make a LaTeX export for the final submission, however, I can send co-authors ODT (and by resaving doc) formats to allow them to make changes and comments to the manuscript. > I've seen comments about an ODT import that I haven't had a chance to look > into yet. > Well this is the exact point which is missing now. For now, I open the resubmitted modified ODT version on my PC and make all changes accordingly in my org-file. Thanks to a dual screen set-up it is rather ok. However, still very error prone. Having the possibility to re-import the ODT-file into org and make a kind of diff which I simply step through and either agree or disagree would be perfect. Emacs already has diff functionallity. What would be needed is a way to re-import the ODT-file in a as much as possible exact way like it was originally. The ODF format is open and I wonder whether there is some kind of metadata tag, which could be used to save the org-mode stuff directly beside the odt text stuff... this would allow to restore the org-mode file rather efficiently. Pseudo code: *** DONE This is a subsubsub-header :COAUTHOR: <\metadata> <> > Cheers, > > Herb > > >