From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
To: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Sharing documents with bibtex bibliography from org to non-org users
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:09:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2h9akbpzj.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871t1pj5nx.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net>
On 2016-08-16 at 11:48, Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
> Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com> writes:
>> 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?
I don't see a way to get the reason for the failure, but you could preempt the failure with a check. Advise the org ODT export function, and have it check for an active LibreOffice process, and then warn.
-k.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-16 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-16 3:36 Sharing documents with bibtex bibliography from org to non-org users Martin Leduc
2016-08-16 10:40 ` Julian M. Burgos
2016-08-16 11:05 ` Martin Leduc
2016-08-16 11:41 ` Ken Mankoff
2016-08-16 11:48 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2016-08-16 17:09 ` Ken Mankoff [this message]
2016-08-16 23:25 ` Maria Shinoto
2016-08-17 1:30 ` Martin Leduc
2016-08-17 2:00 ` Ken Mankoff
2016-08-17 5:34 ` Maria Shinoto
2016-08-16 15:16 ` Julian M. Burgos
2016-08-17 1:18 ` Martin Leduc
2016-08-24 16:38 ` Uwe Brauer
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2016-08-15 18:34 Martin Leduc
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