Gary Thanks for trying out org-odt and sharing your feedback.
> I just joined the list recently and am very excited to try direct odt > export! I checked out Jambunathan's git repo. I'm already running > org-mode from its git master; is your repo a fork of the master, or > is it its own thing? It seems like it contains everything, so I > should use it instead of the main one? It's a fork of the master. It may lag behind the master depending on my whims and fancies. > > Once I enabled png images in my Windows emacs (by copying the > appropriate DLLs), the following worked fine for me in my .emacs: > > #+begin_example > ;; Org-mode ODT (Open Document) export, EXPERIMENTAL: > (custom-set-variables > '(org-export-latex-default-packages-alist (quote (("AUTO" "inputenc" > t)))) > '(org-export-with-LaTeX-fragments (quote dvipng)) > ) > (setq org-odt-base-dir "c:/Program Files (x86)/emacs/site-lisp/ > org-jambu") ; only used for odt export > (load-file (expand-file-name "contrib/odt/setup.el" > org-odt-base-dir)) > #+end_example > LaTeX related lines are required only if there are LaTeX fragments (like equations) which need to be embedded in to the resulting odt file. I have included these lines only because the test.org file that I use for testing has embedded LaTeX fragments. As you noted above, setup.el changes the load-path and has pointers to default styles file used for export. > I suppose one addition would be to allow for customized ODT character > and paragraph styles, e.g. customizing the styles.xml that gets > included into the doc. FYI, many of the user-defined styles used by the exporter have `org' prefix. Updating styles file either from a sample .odt file or .ott files is something in my list. Till such time as I add support for this feature one can use the following workaround: 1. customize the different styles in exported file and save it. 2. unzip the resulting odt file (Note: odt files are just .zip files) and extract styles.xml file from the same. 3. Customize the variable org-export-odt-styles-file to point to the above styles file. The above procedure should work though I haven't tried this myself. For the sake of record, many folks using `older version of emacs' have reported `delete-directory' related crashes while trying my exporter. I have pushed a fix for this a few minutes ago. Jambunathan K. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode