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From: Ken Mankoff <mankoff@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Sharing documents with bibtex bibliography from org to non-org
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Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2016 13:09:04 -0400
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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.