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Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Martin,
>
> The workflow I've been using for the past few months is this:
>
> 1) Export to ODT and then use LibreOffice to convert ODT to DOC with,
>
> (use-package ox-odt
>   :ensure nil
>   :config (progn
> 	    (setq org-odt-preferred-output-format "doc")
> 	    (setq org-odt-convert-processes
> 		  '(("LibreOffice" "/Applications/LibreOffice.app/Contents/MacOS/soffice --headless --convert-to %f%x %i")))))
>
> Note that LibreOffice *cannot* be open/running while exporting, or the conversion fails.

So *that's* what's going on! I could never figure out why it failed
sometimes -- there was no pattern that I could see. Is it possible for
the export process to know that this is why it failed, and provide a
more specific error message?