I pushed few user-visible improvements to org-lparse/org-odt a few minutes ago. With these changes an exported document could be post-processed to another format (using an external converter) with just a single command (i.e., you no longer have to launch OpenOffice and do "Save As" etc)
(For the impatient: Start with item 3!) 1. A choice of command-line converters for org-lparse dependent backends like org-odt and org-xhtml. M-x customize-variable RET org-lparse-convert-processes RET - Currently two converters are supported. 1. BasicODConverter - Home-brewed converter. This is available as an OpenOffice extension in contrib/odt/BasicODConverter dir of org git repo. 2. unoconv - Unable to install this locally on my machine. So use of this as a converter is largely untested. But should work without any glitches. 3. If there are other popular converters that are in use, I would like to add them to this list. 2. M-x customize-variable RET org-lparse-convert-process RET - Choose one of the based on your preferences and availability 3. Make C-c C-e O export directly to your preferred output format (doc?). Use M-x customize-variable RET org-export-odt-preferred-output-format RET (But review items 1 and 2 before doing this) Side-note: You can use M-x org-lparse-convert to convert an odt file to say pdf or even docbook or a csv file to xls or a odp file to ppt. This will depend on your converter capabilities. So checkout M-x customize-variable RET org-lparse-convert-capabilities RET You can use org-lparse to export to xhtml and post-process it to odt etc etc without leaving the comforts of your Emacs session (Remember the pre-odt days?) Jambunathan K. --