Re: Export Org mode files to (gag, barf) MS Office?

[Brandon Taylor <donnie126_2002@hotmail.com>]

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Actually, I've decided to go with your earlier recommendation of using WSL now that it supports GUI apps like Emacs. Doing the export act gives me a very elegant (albeit somewhat crowded) ODT file, like this -- https://www.dropbox.com/s/16dhity67rtdwyp/belvoire.odt?dl=0 (https://link.getmailspring.com/link/FD55DA87-8B2D-4D8A-A92F-FA98BAFDB18B@getmailspring.com/0?redirect=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dropbox.com%2Fs%2F16dhity67rtdwyp%2Fbelvoire.odt%3Fdl%3D0&recipient=ZW1hY3Mtb3JnbW9kZUBnbnUub3Jn)

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On Jun 27 2021, at 5:38 pm, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That error would tend to indicate there is a problem with the way the
> file uri is being encoded. This could either be a bug or it could be due
> to an error in your configuration or possibly the original org file your
> trying to encode. Unfortunately, in that backtrace output, I cannot see
> the full uri. I would start by looking at the full uri and seeing if you
> can spot what is wrong with the encoding and identify where that uri is
> coming from (i.e. your config, a link in the org file your trying to
> export etc).
>
> Here is what I would do -
> - Create a minimal basic org file which generates the error when you try
> to export to odt
>
> - Post that minimal org file, together with details on your Emacs
> version, org-mode version to the list. You might be lucky and someone
> else on Windows will be able to use your test org file to see if they
> get the same error when exporting to odt. Maybe someone not on windows
> can also try exporting it to verify it is not a platform independent
> bug. See M-x org-submit-bug-report for a straight-forward way to
> generate the email.
>
> - Try running emacs -Q and then adding a minimal config to get org odt
> export to work and verify you still get the error. This may help
> identify bad local config, bad org installation/update or issue with org
> version you have.
>
> The objective here is to provide all the information necessary for
> someone else to try and reproduce your issue. This will help in
> determining whether you have a real org or emacs bug, a local
> setup/config error or a problem in your org file.
>
> BTW it probably would be worth running org-lint on the org file your
> trying to export, just to verify it has good org syntax etc.
>
> Brandon Taylor <donnie126_2002@hotmail.com> writes:
> > Here's the generated backtrace after doing M-x toggle-debug-on-error and then trying to do export on Windows.
> >
> > Debugger entered--Lisp error: (rng-uri-error "Bad escapes in URI ‘file:///c:/Program%20Files/Ema...")
> > signal(rng-uri-error ("Bad escapes in URI ‘file:///c:/Program%20Files/Ema..."))
> > rng-uri-error("Bad escapes in URI `%s'" "file:///c:/Program%20Files/Emacs/x86_64/share/emac...")
> > rng-uri-file-name-1("file:///c:/Program%20Files/Emacs/x86_64/share/emac..." nil)
> > rng-uri-file-name("file:///c:/Program%20Files/Emacs/x86_64/share/emac...")
> > rng-locate-schema-file()
> > rng-auto-set-schema(t)
> > rng-validate-mode(1)
> > rng-nxml-mode-init()
> > xml-mode()
> > set-auto-mode-0(xml-mode nil)
> > set-auto-mode()
> > normal-mode(t)
> > after-find-file(nil nil)
> > find-file-noselect-1(#<buffer styles.xml> "c:/Users/donni/AppData/Local/Temp/odt-s6F4yN/style..." t nil
> > "c:/Users/donni/AppData/Local/Temp/odt-s6F4yN/style..." (6755399441121385 3391104951))
> > find-file-noselect("c:/Users/donni/AppData/Local/Temp/odt-s6F4yN/style..." t)
> > org-odt-template(#("\n\n<text:h text:style-name=..." 186 203 (:parent (headline ... ...)) 304 509 (:parent (paragraph ... ...)) 704 714 (:parent
> > (headline ... ...)) 815 987 (:parent (paragraph ... ...)) 995 1044 (:parent (paragraph ... ...)) 1052 1083 (:parent (paragraph ... ...)) 1278 1289 (:parent
> > (headline ... ...)) 1390 1489 (:parent (paragraph ... ...)) ...) (:export-options nil :back-end #s(org-export-backend :name odt :parent nil :transcoders
> > (... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...) :options (... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...) :filters (...) :blocks nil
> > :menu (111 "Export to ODT" ...)) :translate-alist ((bold . org-odt-bold) (center-block . org-odt-center-block) (clock . org-odt-clock) (code .
> > org-odt-code) (drawer . org-odt-drawer) (dynamic-block . org-odt-dynamic-block) (entity . org-odt-entity) (example-block . org-odt-example-block)
> > (export-block . org-odt-export-block) (export-snippet . org-odt-export-snippet) (fixed-width . org-odt-fixed-width) (footnote-definition .
> > org-odt-footnote-definition) (footnote-reference . org-odt-footnote-reference) (headline . org-odt-headline) (horizontal-rule . org-odt-horizontal-rule)
> > (inline-src-block . org-odt-inline-src-block) (inlinetask . org-odt-inlinetask) (italic . org-odt-italic) (item . org-odt-item) (keyword . org-odt-keyword)
> > (latex-environment . org-odt-latex-environment) (latex-fragment . org-odt-latex-fragment) (line-break . org-odt-line-break) (link . org-odt-link)
> > (node-property . org-odt-node-property) (paragraph . org-odt-paragraph) ...) :exported-data #<hash-table eq 34/4001 0x26f5845> :input-buffer
> > "belvoire.org" :input-file "c:/Users/donni/OneDrive/Do..." :odt-styles-file nil :description nil :keywords nil :subtitle nil :odt-content-template-file nil
> > :odt-display-outline-level 2 :odt-fontify-srcblocks t ...))
> > org-export-as(odt nil nil nil nil)
> > org-odt-export-to-odt(nil nil nil nil)
> > org-export-dispatch(nil)
> > funcall-interactively(org-export-dispatch nil)
> > call-interactively(org-export-dispatch nil nil)
> > command-execute(org-export-dispatch)
> >
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> > On Jun 26 2021, at 11:05 pm, Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Brandon Taylor <donnie126_2002@hotmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > 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.
> > >
> >
> > You can try turning on debug on error with
> >
> > M-x toggle-debug-on-error
> >
> > which might give you a backtrace that will provide more details.
> >
> > I would also try executing the command
> >
> > soffice --headless --convert-to odt --outdir "c:/Users/donni/OneDrive/Documents/" "c:/Users/donni/OneDrive/Documents/belvoire.odt"
> >
> > at a command prompt and see if you get any additonal information. I've
> > not done odt exports of org files, but that command line looks odd to me
> > - it looks like it is trying to convert an odt file to odt?
> >
> > I suspect you will have a hard time getting all this to work on Windows.
> > It is possible, but as Windows is not a 'preferred' platform, you have a
> > significant amount of configuration/customisation to do to get it
> > working.
> >
> > I never use Windows, so cannot provide much help of any real substance.
> > I do wonder if it might be easier if you use WSL?
> >
> > --
> > Tim Cross
>
>
> --
> Tim Cross
>


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