Re: Feature request: export form feed as page break

[Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>]

I am the original author of ox-odt.el.

The page break feature is available as part of
https://github.com/kjambunathan/org-mode-ox-odt

This is a fork of the ODT exporter in Emacs Orgmode.

If you are interested, please open an Discussions thread or a Issue on
Github.  Outline your requirements, and I will be happy to share a
recipe or improve the ODT exporter.

For those who rely on ODT exporter--I know there aren't many--please
consider switching to my repo.

If you are going to ask for a feature request for ODT exporter in
emacs-orgmode, you can get some lip-service, and low-effort
patches. (TLDR: The ODT exporter in Emacs is a working, but a dead
code.)

If you are going to ask for a feature request from me, you will
actually see patches.  (TLDR: I have been at this exporter for well
over 13 years now.  See my contribution activity on Github).

As a PSA, I have been working on an experimental ODS export feature in
order to help Uwe Brauer share Org mode tables (with TBLFMs) to ODS
spreadsheet with Excel formulae.

PS: ox-odt fork is a GPL software.  (People who insist on licenses and 
go crazy about it are commercial minded, or ideological nuts.  I am your 
neighbour uncle who wants to help you (and interact with you) in an 
unstructured setting ...

Jambunathan K.



On 21/10/23 13:12, Marvin Gülker wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I am creating training material for the education of German law
> students, which usually consists of a case story on one or two pages,
> followed by a page break after which a proposal for resolving the case
> is provided. The structure is like this because usually I provide the
> case story before the meeting, where I work out a solution with the
> students, and afterwards I want to provide them with complete material,
> while still having everything contained in one file.
> 
> With org, I can easily export to LaTeX and thereby to PDF, and it works
> quite nicely. However, for the page break I always need to write a
> literal \newpage into the document, which does work, but only in LaTeX.
> Since I am the only one using org/LaTeX at my chair, I have to convert
> these documents to DOCX (using the ODT exporter) when a collegue wants
> an editable version of them. As a LaTeX command, \newpage does not work
> when exporting to ODT. I thus open the exported document manually after
> the export and insert the page break using LibreOffice.
> 
> To ease this process, I would like to request that the ASCII control
> character U+000C FORM FEED (displayed by emacs as ^L and also known as
> `\f' in C string notation) is recognised by exporters and translated to
> the corresponding page break command, that is, in LaTeX \newpage and in
> ODT to the XML that makes LibreOffice start a new page. For HTML, it
> could be exported as <div style="clear: both; page-break-after:
> always"/></div> or similar, and for exporters which have no notion of
> pages, it could just be copied over to the exported document as-is.
> 
>    -MG
>