Re: How to convert to odt with specific styles?

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

joakim@verona.se writes:

> Hello list,
>
> I have an article I've written in Org. To submit it to the publisher, it
> needs to follow a particular ms word style template. 

I am not much familiar with MS Word formats.

I am wondering whether it is possible to convert MS Word Templates and
MS Word documents in to their OpenDocument equivalents (*.odt and *.ott)
and yet /retain/ the style names around the round-trip.  Note that the
_style names_ should be stable.  In LibreOffice terms, these are the
style names that you see on the rightmost window of the screenshot that
I posted earlier [1].

Sometimes documents can be re-written using automatic styles [2].  The
converted document will look like the original but internally they may
be relying on automatically generated styles [3].

What sort of styles these Word documents rely on (typically).  I mean
Character styles, Paragraph styles, Page Styles, List styles, Table-*
related styles etc.[4q]

If someone can create a personal word template and willing to experiment
with back-and-forths between LibreOffice and MS Word formats, I am
willing to exchange notes with him/her and amend the exporter to
accommodate new requirements.

I don't have access to MS Word but only LibreOffice that comes bundled
with Debian.

[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-orgmode/2012-12/msg00116.html
[2] Automatic styles go in to content.xml and their names end with a
    numeric suffix.
[3] If you are a programmer, think of cloning a style-name under a new
    name and referencing it Vs referencing the original stylename.
[4] Character and Text styles may not pose much problems compared to other
    styles and something little thing

> I hope to achieve this with the odt exporter.  Reading the org manual it
> seems the style sheet that the odt exporter uses will need to contain a
> couple of hard coded format names. In my case I would like map the org
> factory default format names to other names as defined in the template
> given to me by the publisher.
>
> What is simplest way to achieve this? At the moment I'm changing the
> formats by hand so nearly any other method would be more
> efficient. Also, I'm more proficient with elisp than wordprocessors.
>
> TIA

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